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...other men made their marks on the year, Sidney Hillman of the C.I.O. and James Caesar Petrillo of the Musician's Union. Whether or not it decided the election, Hillman's Political Action Committee brought labor closer to the balance of power in national politics than it had ever been before. Petrillo, after successfully defying the War Labor Board and the President of the U.S., rammed home the revolutionary principle of royalties paid by corporations directly to union treasuries...
...Sidney Hillman, strong boy of U.S. labor and champion of the common man, now visiting London to help make plans for a world trade-union conference in February, bunked in at swank Claridge's Hotel in London, where he found that two of his fellow guests were King George II of Greece, King Peter II of Yugoslavia...
...America is on the road to fascism, or a variant of fascism," prophesied that a coalition of progressive labor, farm, and regional groups (e.g., the New York Liberals and Wisconsin Progressives) was the U.S.'s only hope. Said Thomas: "That rules out, to take an extreme case, Sidney Hillman, or any such labor leader...
Last week the product of these combined yearnings appeared on U.S. newsstands in the form of a new magazine, Pageant, edited by Lyons, published by Hillman. To get the paper for a new mass magazine (first issue: 500,000 copies), Publisher Hillman had to sacrifice some of his old ones. He decided to jettison the detectives and comics, which have been netting $250,000 annual profit...
Publisher Hillman and Editor Lyons bristle at the suggestion that their new 25? slick-paper, pocket-sized magazine is another Coronet, beam at comparison with Reader's Digest. Disinterested readers may find Pageant an agreeable blend...