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...Lewis, locked in contest with A. F. of L. over the Wagner Act, jockeying for advantage in peace talks with the Federation and tied up in contract negotiations for his miners with soft-coal operators, did what he had done before: shipped his lieutenants, Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman, to the scene of disruption...
Walter Reuther, a canny little ex-Socialist who controls U. A. W.'s huge West Side Local in Detroit, had fathered a plan to abolish dissension by abolishing four of the five vice-presidencies, leaving one for himself. Messrs. Murray & Hillman got the convention to adopt a more complete cure: do away entirely with vice presidents...
...these maneuvers was silent, saturnine Secretary-Treasurer Addes. Young Mr. Addes was put up for the presidency by Frankensteen, Mortimer & Co., who with the backing of U. A. W.'s small but potent Communist faction hoped to capitalize on his great popularity. After some tough talking by Murray & Hillman, Mr. Addes agreed to step aside if they would publicly indicate another choice. Loath to convict themselves of "dictatorship," Murray & Hillman at last pointed to amiable, amenable Provisional President Thomas, whom they had upped from a vice-presidency after Homer Martin seceded. Result: fewer dogs were left to fight over...
...Dartmouth's grey, veteran Track Coach Harry Hillman, onetime Olympic runner, the result has since been more headache than help. Year after year on the springy spruce track, his athletes stepped off more remarkable times in practice, were beaten in unremarkable time in competition elsewhere. Last March, to find out just how much faster Dartmouth's track was than those in other sports arenas, he invited the great Glenn Cunningham to race over it. No official world record could be hung up, because the International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes only outdoor performances. Cunningham amazed everybody with...
With this little fight talk Franklin Roosevelt last week warmed up A. F. of L.'s and C. I. O.'s peace negotiators. The six-A. F. of L.'s Harry Bates, Matthew Woll, Tom Rickert; C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman - and Madam Secretary Perkins listened respectfully. But Franklin Roosevelt as he addressed them at the White House before the beginning of their labors must have been pretty certain that most of them had their fingers crossed...