The Pittsburgh Press (September 10, 1944)
Hillman renews attack on Dewey
Saratoga Springs, New York (UP) – (Sept. 9)
Sidney Hillman, chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee, said in an address today that Thomas E. Dewey, Republican presidential nominee, is “a man who has so far shown that he has neither principles, policies nor practical experience of his own.”
He told the New York State CIO convention that Mr. Dewey “merely reflects the policies of the Old Guard and covers them over with phrases calculated to reflect the shifting vagaries of the Gallup Poll.”
Mr. Hillman said:
Thomas Dewey has clearly shown us what it is we have to do. We have to get out the vote – the farmer’s vote – the working man’s vote – the votes of the men and women serving in the Army, the Navy, the Marines and the Merchant Marine – in other words, the people’s vote.