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The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
Bv Drew Pearson
and Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON — The inside
story of the CIO convention was
the dramatic duel of wits be
. tw.ien the greatest showman in
! organized labor and the greatest
strategist.
Each scored in keeping with
his character. John L. Lewis the
mop-haired consumate actor
boomed triumphantly through
all the oratorical skirmishes and
press headlines. Sidney Hillman,
the soft-spok. n master tactician
won the battle for control.
During the first three days,
Lewis held all the trump cards—
plus the spotlight. Although he
had promised to resign he was
bent on retaining a firm grip on
the CIO helm. To this end he
(had packed th. committees with
left-wing henchmen and rigged
the convention machinery so
1 that he was boss of the show.
With the stage carefully set,
Lewis set out to provoke the Hill
man-led Amalgamated Clothing
and Textile Workers the core of
the opposition to bolt the con
vention. That would have left
the numerical stronger opposi
tion helpless and barred the el
, ection of Phil Murray who refus
ed to take the CIO presidency
uni ss assured a free hand. With
Murray out of the way the left
I wingers could have either “draft
! ed” Lewis or elected a complai
; sant stooge.
This was the precarious situa
tion when Hillman rushed to At
lantic City and took personal
command of the battle. Thursday
I afternoon after a long night of
conferring he took the platform.
Hillman didn’t make a speech.
He is not a stump spieler. He
talked in the same quiet conver
sational tones he uses when seat
d at his desk.
There were no fireworks and
no histronics but there was a lot
! of unanswerable logic.
—
SAVED FROM CIO SPLIT
When Hillman finished Lewis
had lost the battle. The opposi
tion unions which Lewis had cow
cd with scorching rhetoric and
■ the packed committee took the
i offensive behind Hillman. The
noisy but eak left wing caved in.
Murray got the assurances he do
manded and 24 hours later Lewis
i crooning a tearful swan song,
surrendered th. gavel.
The upset of John L. Lewis
was not the only feather in Hill
man's cap. Equally great a tri
umph was keeping the CIO from
splitting wide open.
Certain Communist elements
operating on the “rule or ruin"
principle were bent on splitting
the CIO if balked from winning
control. That would have meant
chaos in the labor movement the
| end of any hope for AFL-OIO
peace and a smashing blow to
the Roosevelt Administration.
Th,; true measure of Hillman’s
I strategic- mastery was that he
tied the can to his opponent in
such a deft manner that Lewis’
followers eodld not erupt. They
would have done so at the drop
of the hat had Hillman given
voice to one word of personal
feeling against Lewis.
But Hillman knew that person
al attack was jhst whaat Lewis
wanted, had tried for months to
provoke. And he has fought too
many battles in his 24 years as a
union leader to fall into that
kind of a trap. He suppressed his
personal anger and kept the fight
to the ground on which Lewis
couldn’t win—that the CIO was
biggen than any one man and all
forces must unite to preserve
their common gains.
“THE COMPROMISER"
A pet taunt of Hillman’s left
wing foes is that he is a comprom
iser. They are right and wrong.
Hillman is a compromiser on de
tails but never on principles.
It was “compromise’’ sdeh as
th,; one at Atlantic City which
beat the unbeatable Lewis that
have won Hillman the deserved
reputation of being the most as
tute strategist in organized labor
and that have built the Amalgam
I
ated Clothing Workers into one
of th, six most powerful unions
in the country.
Old Amalgamed associates are
fond of the story of a Hillman
compromise that 23 years ago
wen the fledg ing union its first
major wage victory.
The union only one year old
had gone on strike for more pay
and after a costly figh' the em
ployers finally ag.ro d to arbi
trate. A neutral chairman was ap
pointed and he opened the meet
ing by bluntly asking the em
ployers. “Well what’s your offer?
After a hurried huddle they
announced h. sitantly “A one dol
lar raise.”
“We’ll take it” snapped Hill
man with a suddennes that made
the employers blink. It also caus
ed some of the union officials lat
er to question Hillman's judge
ment. They said that if he had
held out mors might have been
obtained.
“Yes we probably could have
got more” Hiliman replied "but
what good would that have been
if it made the shops move to an
other town where we are not
yet organized? Th.se ships can’t
pay more than $1 at present.
When the bosses can afford more
we’ll make them give it.”
BANKER AND BUSINESS MAN
Hillman and his little union
have gone a long way since
then. They got a lot more from
the boss s and they also gave a
lot back.
The clothing industry is one
of the most stable in the country
the union has never broken an
agreement; it has loaned money,
once $200,000 to towners to keep
factories operating and has vol
t.ered reduced wages when hard
times hit.
Fifty-three years old, slender
with his curly black hair untouch
ed by gray, Hillman looks and
dresses like a conservative busi
ness man. Nothing about him sug
gests the tradional labor leader.
His one passion is work.
For many years he has fought
employers to reduce the work
week. The base week of the Am
a'gamated is 35 hours. But a 12
hour day is a normal one for Hill
man and it’s a rare Sunday when
he doesn’t spend at least a few
hours at a desk. Some years ago
in the midst of a bitt.r organiza
tion battle in Philadelphia he
was ordered to a hospital for an
operation. Four hours after he
ha emerged from the ether he
held a council-of-war at his bed
side.
Ordinarily calm and unruffled
Hillman has two violent av r
sions—unauthorized strikes and
Communism. He has fouht them
relentlessly throughout his car
eer with the doctrine that labor
must be “industry conscious.”
Hillman believes in helping in
dustry to operate efficiently and
prosp rously so that labor can
demand a greater share of the
profits.
“We cannot ask from industry
more than it can afford to give”
he says. "That’s Communistic
practice—to disrupt an industry.
When labor does that it defeats
itself.”
IIILLMAN AND KNUDSEN
Several months after Hillman
had been appointed to th De
fense Commission his fellow
member William Knudsen, form
er General Motors boss and an
other one-time immigrant boy
remarked admiringly "Sidney,
you know as much about busi
ness as I do.”
"Well I ought to know some
thing about it Bill" was the quiet
answer. “My union owns and op
erates two banks and several
low-cost housing projects for our
members and we collaborate
very closely with factory owners
in regulating the industry.”
Hillman also might have add
ed that as head of this large or
ganization he received a salary
of $7,500 a year — less than a
third of that paid Lewis and
about one-twelfth of Knudsen's
check.
Paderewski says he could not
stand Europe any longer. Many
can’t, but are compelled to.
Floating power plants are be
ing planned to meet emergency
demands in carrying out the na
tional defense program.
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