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Foremost was the clear emergence of organized labor as an independent political power. Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. got the voters registered, and then delivered them to the polls...
Said Boss Hillman, rubbing out the G.O.P.'s "Clear it with Sidney" campaign slogan: "President Roosevelt's reelection. . . has been cleared with the American people." Now Hillman, like Miner Lewis after 1936, could try to collect dividends on P.A.C.'s investment...
Labor's House Divided. In New York, labor divided - and divided the credit. Here Hillman had made the deal with Communist elements in the American Labor Party, which then split...
...Liberal Party splinter, controlled by Labor Leader David Dubinsky, and attracting such independent Republicans as Russell Davenport, such New Dealers as Leon Henderson, polled 319,085 votes (nearly all in New York City) for Roosevelt. Hillman's A.L.P. polled 483,371. These two totals, added to the Democrats' 2,461,771, were enough to beat Tom Dewey's 2,952,867 straight G.O.P. vote in crucial New York State...
...citizens were waiting for him at the railroad tracks-local Republicans swore he drew more people than had attended Truman's notification ceremony. At week's end John Bricker moved into Michigan, with Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania ahead. He pressed on-belaboring Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder, crying out for a flood of votes to submerge the wicked works of the New Deal and to float anew the ark of Republicanism...