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Washington was full of rumors of what Harold Ickes said to Sidney Hillman, what the President told Claude Pepper, and the earnest confab between Jimmy Byrnes and Frank Walker at a Cabinet
Suddenly politicians in both parties were alarmed. In a month Labor Boss Sidney Hillman had attained national stature as a political leader, and his budding (ten months old) C.I.O. Political Action Committee looked to politicos like a dangerously powerful political group...
...Sidney Hillman's zealots did contribute much "educational" work before Starnes fell in Alabama. But they had much to learn-their Alabama P.A.C. office opened too late to get its workers registered to vote. And in Texas, Martin Dies screamed bloody murder about a $250,000 C.I.O. campaign to "get him." Snorted Sidney Hillman: "We haven't spent 7? to beat Dies...
Last week P.A.C. officially went on record for Term IV, two days before Eleanor Roosevelt addressed the committee. Hillman's 325,000 Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Phil Murray's 950,000 C.I.O. Steelworkers have already plumped for Franklin Roosevelt in the past fortnight. How many votes can P.A.C. swing? Its most enthusiastic supporters set a maximum of 13 million-including, besides 5.2 million C.I.Osters, 5 million in the A. F. of L. and 1.3 million in the Railway Brotherhoods. Nationally, the A. F. of L. is firmly opposed to P.A.C. holding to its traditional aloofness from endorsing Presidential...
Roosevelt-hating Columnist Westbrook Pegler bluntly "explained" this genteel, political tug of war in a way that reflected no particular credit on anyone: "Lepke was the boss of a local of Sidney Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America ... the union of a man who is one of the President's favorite unioneers. ... If Dewey could get possession of Lepke, he might persuade him to tell the whole story of his murderous, racketeering career in exchange for a commutation of his death sentence to life in prison...