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Although trained to become a rabbi, Sidney Hillman (1887-1946) became a political activist in tzarist Russia After arriving in the United States in 1907, Hillman became a union organizer and in 1914 helped found the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of…

A picture of famous labor activist Sidney Hillman. Hillman would form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America and help to form the CIO. He would be appointed by FDR to the labor division of the War Production Board in 1942.