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President Harry S. Truman and his National Advisory Board on Mobilization

President Truman met with his National Advisory Board on Mobilization, a policy group in which labor is participating. Front row L-R: D. W. Brooks, Georgia, President National Council of Farm Cooperatives; C. E. Wilson, Defense Mobilizer; President Harry S. Truman; Philip Murray, President of CIO; Walter P. Reuther, President of UAW-CIO. Second row: Samuel Abbot Smith, businessman of Chelsea, Mass.; George Meany, Secretary-Treasurer of AFL; William H. Davis, New York attorney; Otto A. Seyferth, President of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Claude A. Putnam, businessman of Keene, N.H.

Portrait of David A. Morse

Portrait of David A. Morse. Mr. Morse was General Counsel, National Labor Relations Board, 1945-1946; Department of Labor, Assistant Secretary, 1945-1947; Under Secretary, Department of Labor, 1947-1948; Acting Secretary of Labor, June-August, 1948; U. S. member, International Labor Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 1946-1948; Director General, International Labor Office, 1948-1970. Mr. Morse was a participant in the 1979 Conference sponsored by the Truman Library Institute entitled "The Economic Policies of the Truman Administration". Donor: David A. Morse.

President Truman with labor leaders

From left to right: Averell Harriman; Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin; Philip Kaiser; President Harry S. Truman; Mr. Vincent Tewson, Head of British labor group; William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor; J. H. Oldenbroek, Executive Secretary of the International Free Trade Unions; and Jacob Potofsky, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, representing Philip Murray, President, Congress of Industrial Organizations. Same as 63-1204.

American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (A.F.L.-C.I.O.) Dinner

Dinner at the Statler Hotel, Washington, D. C., given by the Political Committees of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Head table: Joseph Keenan; James B. Carey; William Boyle; Philip Murray; President Harry S. Truman; William Green; Maurice Tobin; George Meany; Jack Kroll. Left table, outside: George Harrison; Emil Rieve; Daniel W. Tracy; John Green; William Pollock; Richard F. Walsh; Desmond Walker; George Q. Lynch; John H. Lyons; Henry Zon. Left table, inside: David McDonald; Jacob Potofsky; Charles J. MacGowan; Arthur Goldberg; William J.