In Hillman's Shoes

The leaders of C.I.O. could think of only one man to be director of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee. It was Phil Murray, and Murray already had his hands full as president of C.I.O. In the end, without enthusiasm, they set up some hydra-headed boards to do the job that the late Sidney Hillman had done alone.

P.A.C.'s board of directors was enlarged to take in six union presidents plus Murray, who will continue to lay down overall policy. In addition P.A.C.'s leaders knocked together a board to struggle with P.A.C. administration when it is not struggling with itself.

Chosen to be director of this administrative board was John Jacob (Jack) Kroll, plodding vice president of Hillman's Amalgamated Clothing Workers, assistant chairman of Hillman's P.A.C. Hillman's trouble shooter and Hillman's old and loyal friend. Other members were the secretary-treasurers of four of C.I.O.'s biggest unions: the steel Workers' David J. McDonald and the textile workers' William Pollock, who stand to the right of the political center; the auto workers' George Addes, whom U.A.W.'s Communist groups have long supported; the Communist-influenced electrical workers union's Julius Emspak, who has followed the Communist Party line.

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To fill Hillman's job as president of the Amalgamated, the clothing workers chose another old Hillman follower: secretary-treasurer Jacob S. Potofsky. His greying spade beard gives him the appearance of an elegant professor. He is a devout conservative and a hardheaded labor businessman.

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