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=="Clear Everything with Sidney"==
=="Clear Everything with Sidney"==
Hillman organized in 1943 the CIO Political Action Committee. The CIO had violated the law by supporting candidates in various primary elections. To get around this Hillman formed this Political Action Committee and pressure was put on members of CIO unions to compel them to join. Hillman's CIO was recieving a favored position before Roosevelt's [[National Labor Relations Board]].
At the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, DNC Chairman Bob Hannegan went for instructions to President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s private railway car just before the July convention officially began. Roosevelt had decided to dump incumbent Vice-President [[Henry Wallace]]. Worried over dissension on the choice of a successor, tghe ''[[New York Times]]'' reported Roosevelt told Hannegan: "Go on down there and nominate [[Truman]] before there's any more trouble. And clear everything with Sidney." <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791619,00.html "Clear everything with Sidney"], [[Time magazine]], Sep. 25, 1944.</ref> The President could not make the selection of Truman until Sidney Hillman <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Ch. 8, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Shock_Troops.htm ''The Shock Troops of the Third New Deal'']</ref>, Director of the Political Action Committee for the [[Congress on Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) approved it. <ref> ''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Politics__Disease_.htm ''Politics, Disease and History''], Flynn, 1948.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791539-1,00.html The New Force], [[Time magazine]], Jul. 24, 1944.</ref>
At the 1944 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, DNC Chairman Bob Hannegan went for instructions to President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s private railway car just before the July convention officially began. Roosevelt had decided to dump incumbent Vice-President [[Henry Wallace]]. Worried over dissension on the choice of a successor, tghe ''[[New York Times]]'' reported Roosevelt told Hannegan: "Go on down there and nominate [[Truman]] before there's any more trouble. And clear everything with Sidney." <ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791619,00.html "Clear everything with Sidney"], [[Time magazine]], Sep. 25, 1944.</ref> The President could not make the selection of Truman until Sidney Hillman <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 2, Ch. 8, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Eight___The_Shock_Troops.htm ''The Shock Troops of the Third New Deal'']</ref>, Director of the Political Action Committee for the [[Congress on Industrial Organizations]] (CIO) approved it. <ref> ''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 10, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Politics__Disease_.htm ''Politics, Disease and History''], Flynn, 1948.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,791539-1,00.html The New Force], [[Time magazine]], Jul. 24, 1944.</ref>
The Democratic party could win the [[Presidential election of 1944]] if it could carry the Southern states and in addition New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan and New Jersey. These states could be carried with the support of Sidney Hillman's Political Action Committee and Browder's American Labor Party. Roosevelt could not win without Sidney Hillman and [[Earl Browder]].
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