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...fill Hillman's job as president of the Amalgamated, the clothing workers chose another old Hillman follower: secretary-treasurer Jacob S. Potofsky. His greying spade beard gives him the appearance of an elegant professor. He is a devout conservative and a hardheaded labor businessman...
...only one man to be director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. It was Phil Murray, and Murray already had his hands full as president of C.I.O. In the end, without enthusiasm, they set up some hydra-headed boards to do the job that the late Sidney Hillman had done alone...
Chosen to be director of this administrative board was John Jacob (Jack) Kroll, plodding vice president of Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers...
Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...
Died. Sidney Hillman, 59, Lithuanian-born president of the C.I.O.'s well-disciplined Amalgamated Clothing Workers, founder of the P.A.C. and one of U.S. labor's political spokesmen; of coronary thrombosis; in Point Lookout, Long Island (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...