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...young hotheads advocated forming a third party and to hell with both the G.O.P. and Franklin Roosevelt. C.I.O. President Phil Murray offered some cool advice. Third parties, he said, are not practical. And Sidney Hillman warned: "Don't come along with any highfalutin organization that may work out 25 years from now, or may not." Murray and Hillman well knew how third parties have failed in the U.S.: the Populists, the Socialists, the Communists, "Big Bill" Haywood's Wobblies (the I.W.W.), whose theory of progress was to dynamite the social order; or even old Bob LaFollette...
...labor leader is Sidney Hillman, 57, of Manhattan, for 30 years the president of the rich and powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Hillman's importance derives from the biggest new fact in U.S. politics: the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, of which he is chairman...
...names of radicals, movie stars, authors and liberals of all shades that ranged from George Norris to Paul Robeson.* Partly the reason for this was to get around the Smith-Connally Act by having the new committee collect and disburse contributions. Partly the reason was that shrewd Sidney Hillman, looking ahead, wants to get a broader base for his party than labor unions-just as the British Labor Party gradually came to include peers and peeresses, from Lady Noel-Buxton to the late Lord Wedgewood...
Even then, unless the election is very close, its actual national strength will be difficult to gauge. This will be all right with Strategist Hillman. For his first task is to establish P.A.C. as a threatening force, to which Congressmen and politicos in both parties must pay attention...
These were some of the reasons why Sidney Hillman is one of the most important men in Chicago this week. The gentle, chronically ailing labor leader is not a delegate to the convention; he is not even a registered Democrat. But behind the scenes his power is great...