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President Martin's low state coincided with the presence in Detroit of C. I. O. Vice Chairmen Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman. With them at the Hotel Statler was swart young Lee Pressman, C. I. O. general counsel, who is so thoroughly allergic to Homer Martin that the two were kept apart. Boss John L. Lewis had sent the visitors to save C.I.O.'s third largest union from dismemberment at the hands of Mr. Martin and feuding fellow officers (TIME, June 20). Mr. Lewis was aboard ship, coasting home from a union conference in Mexico City...
Grey-topped, placid Mr. Murray and blacktopped, jumpy Mr. Hillman proposed to save U. A. W. by reinstating the expelled officers and having future disputes settled by C. I. O. executives (meaning Lewis, Murray, Hillman). Rather than lose face, Homer Martin rejected "the Lewis plan," called upon his majority of twelve supposedly loyal boardmen to back...
...which it has become accustomed, WPA last week started something new; buying $10,000,000 worth of men's & boys' clothes to give not only to its "clients" but to any persons who can prove "need," an idea sold to Administrator Harry Hopkins by President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers (TIME, June 20). Bids were in and samples received from 1,800 manufacturers. At the Manhattan office of the U. S. Treasury's Procurement Division, WPAdministrator Corrington Gill inspected long racks of garments including tuxedos and racy sports clothes (see cut). He announced that nothing "flashy...
...indicated that his party would not form a coalition with the Democratic (or any other) ticket unless A. L. P. could pick the nominee for one Senator and for lieutenant governor. For Senator, said Mr. Rose, his party would like the Amalgamated Clothing Workers' dynamic little president, Sidney Hillman...
...Lehman candidacy also sidetracked any ambitions Laborite Hillman might have had, since Democrats would find it inexpedient to nominate two Jews for the Senate. It soon appeared, moreover, that Governor Lehman's ambitions might extend over a front wider than the Senate Chamber. Almost immediately after he announced his candidacy, his loyal Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr., also without consulting party leaders in Washington, announced his candidacy for Governor. And two days later, Candidate Lehman, speaking before 300 welfare officials at a conference at Saranac Inn, sounded a distinctly candid note by suggesting a purging of swollen Relief...