Labor leaders

President of the American Federation of Music and National Music Chairman on the 1949 Inaugural Committee, James C. Petrillo participated in the inaugural events held January 1949.

Left to right: former President Harry S. Truman; John L. Lewis, President, United Mine Workers Association; and former Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman at a banquet in the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Man in background in unidentified.

From left to right: William Green, President, American Federation of Labor; President Harry S. Truman; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Margaret Truman; Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin; and Clement F. Preller, President, Washington Central Labor Union at the dedication of Gompers' Square in Washington, D.C. Others in background unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (at podium) delivers an address at the dedication of Gompers Square in Washington, D.C. Also pictured: William Green, President, American Federation of Labor (front row, second from left); Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin (front row, right); and Clement F. Preller, President, Washington Central Labor Union (third row, right of podium). All others unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (center) meets with representatives of labor organizations during a trip to Indiana. Also pictured: Harlan J. Noel, CIO-PAC state director of Indiana. Man in back is unidentified.

Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (seated, second from right) talks with labor leaders during the 1952 campaign. All others are unidentified.

Governor Paul A. Dever (l-r), President of the Massachusetts State CIO Council J. William Belanger, Senator John F. Kennedy, and former President Harry S. Truman at a Truman Library Fund luncheon in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Truman's writing below the photo says, "Boston, March 8, 1954."

President Harry S. Truman (left) meets with labor leader Walter Reuther (right), president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, in the Oval Office.

President Harry S. Truman (left) meets in the Oval Office with labor leader Walter Reuther, president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

President Harry S. Truman (left) meets with labor leader Walter Reuther (right), president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, in the Oval Office.