Sidney Hillman
American labor leader · United States · On the map · Lived 1887 to 1946 · aged 59
Sidney Hillman was an American labor leader. He was the head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and was a key figure in the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and in marshaling labor's support for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal coalition of the Democratic Party.
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Hillman in 1914
Hillman in Soviet Russia Pictorial, February 1923
John L. Lewis, Hillman, and Charles P. Howard exit the White House after discussing labor legislation with president Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937
Hillman, John L. Lewis, David Dubinsky, and Baruch Charney Vladeck at an American Labor Party rally
Hillman addressing a 1944 political rally
The mausoleum of Sidney Hillman in Westchester Hills Cemetery.Awards
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Lived 1887 to 1946 · aged 59