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...Friday, as on every Friday since the beginning of July, 17 men met to confer in the Federal Reserve Building in Washington. Eight of them were subchieftains of C. I. O.; seven of them of A. F. of L.; two were from the independent Railroad Brotherhood. Their chairman: Sidney Hillman, a vice president of Lewis' C. I. O., president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Franklin D. Roosevelt's labor coordinator for the National Defense Advisory Commission. They were working on the problem of U. S. defense...
...factional strife there was no sign. Labor peace was a working reality on Hillman's committee. Perhaps it might finally spread its wings over Labor's whole house. But where were Green & Lewis...
...abandoned, rotting Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia (which turned out many a World War I emergency vessel). Lined up were other private yards at Chester, Pa., Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Beaumont, Tex., Tampa, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., Oakland, Calif., Wilmington, Del. In collaboration with Labor's Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox announced a plan to round up unemployed artisans in the interior, transport them to the coasts. Some of the sand was taken out of the Navy Department's gears. Payments to contractors have been increased and speeded up. Navy-yard workers were put on overtime (at time...
...State Adolf Berle, are Franklin Roosevelt's mainstays on all-important Foreign Policy. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, the splintered War Department's Henry Stimson (see p. 20), and their ranking officers (Stark, Marshall), along with Industrialists William Knudsen and Edward Stettinius, Labor's Sidney Hillman, are often at the White House to talk and administer Defense (see p. 77). A curious, fateful fact about Franklin Roosevelt is that none of these men-not even Cordell Hull-belongs to the President's innermost Inner Circle. They are professionals or emergency specialists with whom the President...
...Messrs. Hillman & Co. last week sought to bring order and unity to all these independent, hit-or-miss training efforts, it appeared that the toughest job in U. S. defense preparations might be harnessing the nation's willing man power...