and you have here sydney helmand depicted. sydney helmand was a central part of the fall campaign in 1944. this is the presidential election where the slogan clear it with sydney or clear everything with sydney is very prominent. and the sydney is the person you see in this cartoon holding up the communistic pac and you see him here in this image. helmand was a former head of the powerful labor federation, the congress of industrial organizations, the cio, and after the smith/connelly act of 1943 forbade labor unions to actually be involved or make contributions to campaigns, hillman forms the political action committee, the pac, the cio-pac, and will do aloft work to assist democratic candidates. you don't have to get all this down on the screen, but you can look at it later on black board, just to familiarize yourself with who hillman was, but i'm not going to ask you specific things about what this pac is all about. but in the main, it was viewed as something that was an aid to democratic candidates and especially the roose