Word: hillmanism
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...Sidney Hillman, Labor's division last week might have been worse. On his shoulders rested a double responsibility. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins vaguely denied a circumstantial report by the New York Times that she had finally pinned on her hat and resigned. But Sidney Hillman had already overshadowed her. As Labor Man on the National Defense Advisory Commission, the split between A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. was his burden. As a leader of C. I. O. the split within that body was his burden...
...bitterness at Green, Lewis assaulted Hillman. He sneered at a resolution that C. I. 0. "explore" the possibilities of reunion with A. F. of L.-a resolution backed by Mr. Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, eager to see the Labor schism healed...
Many another orator followed: teacherish Thomas Kennedy; earnest Philip Murray; tough-minded Van A. Bittner; Sidney Hillman. Had Hillman chosen to reply to Lewis with equal bitterness, the fat might have been in the fire. Instead he spoke earnestly and reasonably for unity. Only grudgingly did Lewis shake Hillman's proffered hand after that generous speech...
...last day of C. I. O.'s convention John Lewis nominated his successor: 54-year-old Philip Murray, who began his career at the age of ten working in a Scottish coal mine, still has a miner's shoulders and a Scotsman's burr. Sidney Hillman seconded Murray's nomination, for Murray's election was the brightest hope for harmony in C. I. 0. When Murray won, Lewis shook his hand far more cordially than he had shaken Hillman's, gave him an ivory gavel, "symbol" of C. I. 0. leadership...
...would dominate Murray and run the show from backstage. Phil Murray had his chief over a barrel all week. Be fore he would agree to take the job, he demanded a resolution condemning Naziism, Fascism and Communism, one of the issues of the convention, a resolution that anti-Communist Hillman was eager for. Lewis squirmed, thundered that those who say Communists influenced C. I. 0. "lie in their beard and lie in their bowels." But finally he gave in. The resolution was passed...