Establishment of a graduate fellowship at the University of Chicago by the Chicago joint board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was announced by Samuel Levin, Chicago leader of the organization.
The board is providing $1,000 a year for unbiased and unrestricted research in industrial relations. The fellowship, open to graduate students who have done meritorious work in the field of labor, is to be known as the Sidney Hillman Fellowship, in honor of the president and leader of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
The fellowship was offered the University of Chicago in a letter written by Samuel Levin.
“The fellowship,” Mr. Levin wrote, “is provided in recognition of the statesmanlike leadership in the labor movement of Sidney Hillman, of his pioneering and his contribution to the betterment of social and industrial relations.” The terms outlined by Mr. Levin’s letter provide that the fellowship shall be filled on recommendation of the department.
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