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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.

Thanksgiving Political Cartoon

This is a photograph of a political cartoon by Jim Berryman entitled "Pre-Thanksgiving Dream". This was published in November 1946 by the Washington Evening Star. The men depicted in the cartoon are President Harry S. Truman, Attorney General Tom Clark, United Mine Workers Union President John L. Lewis, and Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug.