The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-10
Heart Attack Proues Fatal
 ToSidneyHillman ofP.A.C.

POlnt Lookout, N. r., July lU - (UP) - Sidney Hillman, Lithu- anian immigrant who rose to power in American labor and politics, died at his home of a heart attack at $40 A. M. EDT., today. He was 59.
 Son of a small trader and grand son of a Rabbi, Hillman came to America at the age of 20, imme- diately became active in labor cir cles, and moved upward in them to the presidency of the powerful Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, and the chairmanship of the Political Action Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organ izations. He held both of those po- sitions at his death.
 Hillman had suffered heart at- tack several years ago, and had been in ill health occasionally since that time
 Efforts Fail
 At T A. M. today, at his summer home in point lookout, on the south shore of Long Island, Hill man complained of severe pain in the heart region.
 A physician, Dr. John Cahll, who lives nearby, was called, but despite all efforts, Hillman grew steadily weaker, and died less than two hours later.
 At the bedside as he died were Mrs. Hillman, their son-in-laW and daughter, MT. and Mrs. Irving Ler- ner, of New York, and Dorothy Lerner, 3, grand d-daughter.
 Another daughter, Mrs. Milton Fried, who was with her husband, an employe of tbe American En- bassy in Paris, was notified by cable
 Funeral Plans Incomplete
 Funeral services had not been planned, but it was said at head quarters of the Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers that they would be announced later today.
 HillmansS successor as head of the FAC, the political organization of the C.IO., may be determined at a FAC. meeting in Washington next week, it was said.
 The Lithuanian immigrant boy originally was intended by his father to be trained as a rabbi, fol- lowing in his grandfather foot 1 steps.
 Exactly what changed these plans was not clear, but it was reported that Hillman was involved in some way-as boy of only 18-With the ill-fated Russian revolution of 1905, and it was possible that his decision to come to America resulted from the failure of the revolution. Involved in Strike
 His first job was as cutter in the Chicago shop of Hart, Schaff- ner & Marx, clothiers, where he made S10 a week.
 A strike occurred there in 1910, and Hillman played prominent part in it, as it grew from an orig inal walkout of Is girls to a strike of 41,000 clothing workers in the Chicago area within three weeks,
 In 1914, having come to New York as chief clerk of a joint board set 1p to settle labor disputes in the garment industry, Hillman led re- volt of the United Garment Work CTS against it's parent organization, the American Federation of Labor
 He and his associates were called l rofjnalS O thot and the A.F.L. refused to seat them at the 1914 convention. The result was formation the following year of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ot America, with Hillman as president
 He made it the dominant organi- zation in the mems garment indus try.
 Originator of P. A. C.
 Hillman was active in support ot the late PreSient Roosevelt's early New Deal" administrations, ane in July, 1943, was one of the origi- nators of the Political Action Con- mittee of the CIO. with which the Amalgamated Clothing Worker; were affiliated.
 The FAC. took an active part il, the 1914 campaign in behalf of MT Roosevelt, and in the course of the campaign it was asserted by Arthur Krock, New York Times eolumnist that Hillman's influence was SC great that MT. Roosevelt had tolo Robert Hannegan, National Demo cratic chairman, to clear it (every- thing with Sidney"