LABOR: End of Strife

Stumping the country in 1944, John Bricker declared: "Sidney Hillman's convention cared no more for the Democratic party than for the Constitution of the United States. Power and greed to dominate his fellow men are the motives back of his political activity."

Abuse, patient Sidney Hillman had learned, was often the measure of his effectiveness. Candidate Bricker's attack was a high point in the softspoken, bespectacled labor leader's strifebound career.

That career had started more than 40 years before in a Czarist cell, where he had been jailed for revolutionary activities. Son of...

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