Show Inside Labor Hillman Union Symbolizes PAC s Decline By Victor Riesel ATLANTIC CITY Two CITY Two things you can pick up on the Boardwalk Boardwalk Boardwalk Board Board- walk here these days the days the latest latest latest lat lat- lat lat- est in mens men's fashions and C CIO I 0 political strategy These should be of considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able interest to President Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man who over the years has specialized in do both He should be especially eager to learn that C CIO I 0 leaders apparently have re reversed reversed reversed re- re versed themselves and will not as planned turn their many upcoming upcoming up up- coming comin conventions into either anti Truman demonstrations or orI I pro-Eisenhower pro rallies Some 1500 leaders of ot the C CI I 0 O Omens Omen's mens men's clothing union are meeting meeting meeting meet meet- ing here That means the C CI I Os O's shrewdest and most mot politically sophisticated strategists including including including ing the Political Action Committees Committee's Committees Committee's Committees Committee's Commit Commit- tees tee's chief Jack Kroll are here So was Phil Murray Its It's apparent they have word from Democratic party managers managers managers mana mana- gers that President Truman will willbe willbe willbe be nominated in July This word must have come to them within the past few days for up to last week there were well organized plans for widely enthusiastic Draft Eisenhower demonstrations demonstrations at most C CIO I 0 conventions Will VIlI Indorse Democrats This cluster duster of fashionable Boardwalk hotels would have been just the spot for such band- band It was a little less than two years ago that General Genera Ike walked up the Boardwalk and into a cheering C CIO I 0 convention convention convention con con- to make one of his first war post-war speeches And it was the late Sidney Hillman whose union meets here these days who first interested labor leaders in Eisenhower as a presidential possibility But this is clear here After the Truman nomination the C CIO's CIOs I Os O's P PEA piA AC C will endorse the Democratic party Then it will promptly forget about Mr Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man and campaign only on a congressional district level The mens men's clothing workers leaders are abandoning their Eisenhower boom r They're still for the General and will be so up to the last minute of nominations at the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic convention And these la labor labor labor la- la bor men will be worth observing at the Democratic jamboree in Philadelphia come July for they are the sensitive political Indicators indicators indicators indi Indi- in C CI I 10 O 0 and have always been that But they are practical men who like the rest of C CIO I 0 dont don't want to find themselves isolated in this campaign Broken With Wallace Vallace They've broken with Henry Wallace They wont won't vote lican So So- So I The indifference of such a union as this to Mr Truman will cost the president many votes in the 38 states where its members work The Amalgamated Amalgamated Amalgamated Amalga Amalga- mated Clothing Workers today under the competent direction of its president Jack is in a position to spend its time campaigning It has few organizational organizational organizational problems what problems what with more than 95 per cent of the nations nation's mens men's clothing industry unionized for years It has not called a major clothing strike since 1921 Its It's a wealthy union too Its newest treasury report discloses assets of It has set setup setup up a new movie department and andis andis andis is constructing F M radio broadcasting broadcasting broad broad- casting stations Assets Its two banks In New York and Chicago have total assets of over And it is spending on two big housing projects in which a good many apartments will be set aside for veterans It seems destined that this union should again be the symbol symbol symbol sym sym- bol of what all aU the other labor units are doing for the Damo- Damo Democratic cratic presidential nominee In 1944 it was the turbulent driving p power behind P PAC A C. C Its late leader Sidney Hillman was campaigned against almost as as' as much as was Franklin Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Today it is on its way out of presidential politics It cant can't clear Harry Truman with its pe people |