Word: hillmanism
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Standing in the ballroom of Atlantic City's Hotel Chelsea, Sidney Hillman last week cried: "You know the history of labor is division, and every time there is division it destroys everything we have built...
...miles and a world of bitterness from the convention of the A. F. of L. in New Orleans. C. I. O. was itself divided in a fight over Communist leaders, A. F.of L. similarly split in a fight over racketeers. And the words were hardly out of Sidney Hillman's mouth when members of Congress, irked by the still unsettled strike at the Vultee Aircraft plant (TIME, Nov. 25), began to denounce "strikes against the Government," to suggest bills to prevent the organizing of workers in defense plants. A little more division and it was possible that destruction...
...Atlantic City, five years ago, insurgents led by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman defied the hierarchy of the American Federation of Labor. Out of that convention sprang the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This week, gathering in the same Atlantic City hotel, C. I. O. itself threatened to split asunder. The opposing leaders of its wrangling factions: John Lewis and Sidney Hillman...
Last week, before the convention opened, they met by chance on the boardwalk. They went to Mr. Hillman's hotel room, where they talked for over an hour. When they came out they were laughing. Peacemakers took hope. Later Lewis gruffed to newsmen: "From the social standpoint it was enjoyed by each of us." Neither would admit he had budged an inch from his position, but both declared loudly there would be no breakup...
Robert A. Hawkins '43, Belmont Mass.; Benjamin M. Hazard '42, Narragansett, R.I.; Lemuel S. Hillman '41, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Question M. Hope '42, Cambridge, Mass.; Peter D. JOhnson '43, Norwich, Conn.; Howard V. Jones Jr. '43, Waban, Mass...