Evening star., 1944-05-15
HiIIman Sees Election
Of Congress in Favor
OF Roosevelt Policies
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 15.-Sidney Hill
man, president of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers of America, as
serted today that political con-
sciousness and organization on the
part of labor and other liberal ele-
ments would bring about the election
in November of Congress that will
support the win-the-war and win
the-peace policies of President
Roosevelt"
Mr.. Hillman, chairman of the
CIO Political Action Committee,
told the unions 14th biennial con-
vention that political education was
sweeping the grass roots of the
country"
'The broad masses of Americans,
and that includes labor. farmers,
small businessmen, white-collar
workers and progressives generally
know that November 7 will
be a decisive date in American his
tory" he said. They are deter
mined to elect government that
can be trusted to prosecute the war
to speedy and uncompromising VIC
tory. -
End of Shipping Demanded.
'"The needs of the Nation at this
critical hour demand a truce on
narrow partisanship and an end to
sniping at the National Govern
ment and our Commander in Chief
for selfish political purposes"
MIR. Hillman declared there was
need for realistic postwar planning
and said vital problem would be
that of assuring jobs for all and a
high standard of living in the post
war economy"
"The National Government which
we elect In 1914 will deter
mine whether our Nation will join
with the other United Nations in
an international organization to
assure lasting and democratic
peace ;" or whether we will again
turn our back on the world, play
lone, imperialist hand, and make
the coming peace no more than an
uneasy truce as prelude to World
War III"
The unions General Executive
Board asserted in its report to the
convention that Congress has scut-
tied the Presidents program for
annnoY,1ir Sf hi1i1o&ioy
Convention Opens.
The board, in its report to the
CIO unions convention which
opened today, declared q combina-
ton of Republicans and antiadmin-
istration Democrats "has defaulted
on every vital domestic need for
the establishment of a secure and
united home front which will give
maximum support to our armed
forces on the battlefront"
AS result, the board said, .'living
costs have continued to mount
while wages remain stabilized un-
der the Little Steel formula, which
now has become outmoded and un-
realistic in the light of the failure
to halt price increases"
Mr.. Hillman, discussing the an
nouncement of Representative Dies,
Democrat, of Texas that he, would
not seek reelection, said, There is
no truth to reports that our COM
mittee has spent $250,000 in the
second district of Texas (Dies' dis
trict). We haven't spent 2 cents in
Texas"
Wfll Face Dies Group Next Week.
Mr.. Hillman. who has been
subpoenaed by the Dies Committee,
said he would appear before it May
%. Asked if he would take with
him records of the Political Action
Committee, he replied, We'll have
to determine that"
Mr.. Hillman said he expected the
union to act on a fourth-term in
dorsement for President Roosevelt |
and added:
Il hate to prophesy, but I would
not be surprised if the union would |
join the demand for a fourth term"
Philip Murray, president of the
Congress of Industrial Organiza-
tions, will address the convention
tomorrow and Mrs. Eleanor Roose-
velt will speak THURSDAY.