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President Thomas' superiors in C. I. O., Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, backed him up with an eloquence and alacrity which clearly reflected C. I. O.'s larger interest in the situation. Homer Martin, president of U. A. W.'s A. F. of L. wing, snarled back at them that the strike was an "outlaw" designed to "pit a few hundred skilled workers against more than 100,000 production workers...
...greeted boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president of its electrical union. Vice President Philip Murray was gravely on his dignity, as becomes a crown prince. Bronzed with a Florida tan, recovered from pneumonia, Vice President Sidney Hillman backslapped one & all. Mooning about like a bitter rabbit was little Alien Harry Bridges, whose services to C. I. O. on the West Coast may be terminated by deportation proceedings next week...
...Textiles, where C. I. O.'s temporary organizing committee under Sidney Hillman has just been turned into a permanent union with contracts covering some 400,000 of textiles' estimated 1,200,000 workers. A. F. of L. proposes to put organizers, money and life into a presently feeble rival, has yet to do much about it. Their big battleground: the South. > Automobile manufacturing, where, as in textiles, A. F. of L. owes its foothold to an anemic minority which recently deserted C. I. O. The Federation's Homer Martin slightly bettered his position last week. Instead...
Individual honors went to Dartmouth's Warren Chivers, who swept down the difficult Hillman Highway slope in 50.4 seconds, and the first Crimson finisher was Bill Hinton in 53.2 seconds...
When C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman and two score sub-lieutenants went to Cleveland last fortnight to minister to the feud-fuddled United Automobile Workers of America, they hoped to apply not a cure but a poultice. To that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...