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$42,500 in Grants Allocated by Sidney Hillman Foundation, Potofsky Announces

August 28, 1950
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The trustees of the Sidney Hillman Foundation this week-end announced allocation of $42,500 for scholarships, grants-in-aid and prizes designed to foster closer labor-management relations and to promote the cause of democracy and world peace, in accordance with the ideals of the late Jewish labor leader in whose memory the foundation was named. The announcement was made by Jacob S. Potofsky, president of the foundation and successor to Mr. Hillman as president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, C.I.O.

A $10,000 grant-in-aid was awarded to the social science department of the University of Chicago for a two-year study of school and college textbooks to root out the teaching of prejudice and discrimination. Scholarships totaling $18,000 were made to Brandeis and Howard Universities; New School for Social Research; New York State School of Industrial and labor Relations, Cornell University; Roosevelt College; and Chaim Weizman Institute in Israel.

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