Statement by the President Upon the Death of Sidney Hillman.

IN THE DEATH of Sidney Hillman the cause of democracy in this country and the world loses one of its most effective and devoted exponents. Sidney Hillman was more than a distinguished labor leader; he was a great humanitarian and an outstanding statesman in the field of labor-management relations. That he, an immigrant youth, could rise to eminence in the land of his adoption is a tribute at once to his own ability and character and to the democractic ideals for which he fought.