[1] He graduated from City College in education and government, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1931; he was president of the senior class.
[1] For example, at the death of Sidney Hillman, founder and president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America as well as head of the CIO-PAC and state chairman of the American Labor Party (ALP), Raskin wrote, "Mr. Hillman's death was expected to make more difficult the maintenance of the uneasy political alliance between the regular Democratic party organization and the coalition of liberal and labor groups exemplified by the CIO-PAC."
Further, he wrote, "Hillman was the balancing wheel, keeping in line the increasingly restive Communist minority in the CIO and its group in the ALP, as well as others who were demanding political action independent of the Democratic Party.
"[4] In effect, when Raskin predicted that the "left would likely push harder for an independent party", he predicted the expulsion of the communist-affiliated Lee Pressman and Len De Caux from the CIO as they favored the Progressive Party of Henry A. Wallace in 1948 over the mainstream CIO's support for Harry S.
[citation needed] Of all the institutions in our inordinately complacent society, none is so addicted as the press to self-righteousness, self-satisfaction and self-congratulation.