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Communism or Hillmanism. Said the Democrats: neither Earl Browder nor Sidney Hillman is running for the Presidency; it takes all kinds of support to elect a President. Republicans: why do Reds and pinkos like the New Deal so much then...
...Christian Science Monitor's Moscow correspondent changed him from an ardent admirer of Communism into a disillusioned critic (Collectivism-A False Utopia). This week, writing in Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram, he gave his verdict on the significance of the Browder-Hillman campaign for Term IV, Said...
...Cleveland, P.A.C. Boss Sidney Hillman praised the late Wendell Willkie, added: "Had not Wendell Willkie been eliminated by the Old Guard Republicans, we would not have endorsed Mr. Roosevelt for the Fourth Term. The P.A.C. would not have made any endorsement." But Hillman scoffed at charges that P.A.C. wants to take over the Democratic Party. Said he: "We not only would not take it over, they could not force...
Immigrants All. Never mentioning Candidate Dewey, the President lashed out at the anti-Sidney Hillman campaign, in a frank bid for the foreign-born vote: "Labor baiters and bigots and some politicians use the term 'Communism' loosely and apply it to every progressive social measure and to the views of every foreign-born citizen with whom they disagree. They forget that we in the U.S. are all descended from immigrants...
...steps toward this, Barmine wrote: "With the help of Sidney Hillman, a small, thinly camouflaged Communist minority took over the American Labor party, representing half a million votes in New York. . . . The next step in the Communist conspiracy was the attempt through the Political Action Committee of the C.I.O. to gain a dominating power in the Democratic party...