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...other compromise Murray and Hillman won. Lewis wanted Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen leader often suspected of being a Red, as vice-president. In the end they agreed on big, windy, swaggering Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union...
...Murray, a quiet man who works in a quiet way, Hillman got a man he could work with in C. I. O., a man opposed to Communist union control, who would not let bitterness alone prevent healing the breach between C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. This was considerable, despite Murray's first words as president ("I protest the use of Government pressure to force a shotgun agreement between the C. I. 0. and the A. F. of L."), despite his announcing that his first job was an immediate organizing drive in "Little Steel" and Ford...
...beginning Management distrusted him instinctively because he was a Labor leader. A. F. of L. distrusted him because he belonged to C. I. 0. The left wing of C. I. O. distrusted him because he was for peace and moderation. On June 12, Hillman took office...
...Momentous Convention." Early last summer, while Hillman was bedded with grippe in Manhattan, his telephone rang. He took a thermometer out of his mouth to answer. "Sidney," said the voice of Franklin D. Roosevelt, "I've got a big job I'd like you to do." It was a job on the Defense Commission. Hillman's tempera ture rose from 101 to 103°. When he recovered he went to work in Washington...
...Sidney Hillman was born in Zagare, Lithuania, then part of Russia, second of seven children of a Jewish merchant. He studied to be a rabbi, got too close to a workers' movement, spent ten months in jail, finally fled Russia for England. From there he migrated to Chicago, worked for 18 months as a clerk, got a job as an apprentice cutter with Hart Schaffner & Marx which paid, after three years, $11 a week. A strike at the plant plunged him into labor struggles. In 1914 he became first president of an infant Amalgamated Clothing Workers, has been president...