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Solidly backed by his vice-chairmen- Connecticut's longtime Boss John Henry Roraback. Oregon's Ralph E. Williams, rich and buxom Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Pennsylvania and Mrs. John E. Hillman of Colorado-Chairman Hamilton did not rise to the Fish bait. On his own behalf he said only: "I have no particular defense to make of the last campaign. There were lots of errors, but I said at the start there would...
...signing oaths and official certifications) were, besides numerous ward bosses, four women, such political war horses as one-time Ambassador James W. Gerard, one-time Editor Herbert Bayard Swope, one-time Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen, Roosevelt Friend Frank C. Walker, such reigning Labor Union chiefs as Sidney Hillman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers), Joseph P. Ryan (International Longshoremen), Max Zaritsky (United Hatters, Cap & Millinery Workers), David Dubinsky (International Ladies' Garment Workers). Also present were Governor Lehman and the past President of the New York college, not this year a member, James Aloysius Farley...
...leaders who were drawing up resolutions in Tampa. The other was symbolic of a different kind of fist-shaking undertaken by the C. I. O. leaders in Washington. There John L. Lewis had around him some of the shrewdest of Labor's brains. Among them is Sidney Hillman, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Among them also is David Dubinsky, whose enthusiasm for the C. I. O. fist is dampened somewhat by the fact that it is popularly identified more with the arm of Lewis than that of Dubinsky. But no internal difference of the C. I. O. hampers...
Topping these C. I. O. activities, John L. Lewis continued on his way to an ultimate aim beyond unionism, the creation of a Labor Party. Last week in Washington he, Sidney Hillman and Major George L. Berry held a council of war about the future of their Labor's Non-Partisan League which this year supported Roosevelt, which in 1940 hopes to go its own way. In the back of many a Labor man's head is the perfectly serious question whether John L. Lewis may not some day be President...
...Hillman-Curl...