The Pittsburgh Press (September 22, 1944)
Brownell: Labor swings toward Dewey
Albany, New York (UP) –
Herbert Brownell Jr., National Republican campaign manager, asserted yesterday that evidence was increasing that “organized labor is swinging to the Dewey-Bricker ticket.”
“We have had a fine and enthusiastic response from organized labor leaders as a result of Governor Thomas E. Dewey’s Seattle speech,” Mr. Brownell declared at a press conference prior to a meeting of 21 eastern Upstate New York Republican county leaders.
He added that certain labor leaders resent bitterly the Hillman-Browder group’s attempts to take over organized labor as well as the New Deal party.