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When the Congress of Industrial Organizations was formed all the leaders were aware that certain Communist unions were moving in. Hillman knew Michael Quill, Joseph Curran, [[Harry Bridges]], Ben Gold, Abram Flasner and numerous others who had moved into the CIO were Communists. And Hillman understood Communists in labor unions are not interested in the welfare of the members but in the use of the labor union apparatus for revolutionary activities.
When the Congress of Industrial Organizations was formed all the leaders were aware that certain Communist unions were moving in. Hillman knew Michael Quill, Joseph Curran, [[Harry Bridges]], Ben Gold, Abram Flasner and numerous others who had moved into the CIO were Communists. And Hillman understood Communists in labor unions are not interested in the welfare of the members but in the use of the labor union apparatus for revolutionary activities.
Hillman was deeply sympathetic to the Communist cause in Russia and to the extreme [[leftwing]] ideal in America, and he was a bitter man.
Hillman was deeply sympathetic to the Communist cause in Russia and to the extreme [[leftwing]] ideal in America, and he was a bitter man. When [[John L. Lewis]] and David Dubinsky later left the CIO, Hillman would be supreme.
==References==
==References==