Sidney Hillman Quotes

Lithuania, Politician
March 23, 1887 – July, 10, 1946.

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 Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Democratic Party.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

Sidney Hillman
Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

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- Work
- Hours
- Labor

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

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- Science
- Politics
- Gets
We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty. We want to have an America where the inventions of science will be at the disposal of every American family, not merely for the few that can afford them.

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- America
- Living
- Citizens