Labor leaders

Dedication ceremony for the Harry S. Truman Library. Former President Herbert Hoover (seated in front row, left, wearing hat), Archivist of the United States Wayne C. Grover (standing, left, back to camera), former President Harry S. Truman (standing, right), and Jacob Potofsky can be seen.

President Harry S. Truman meets with a delegation representing the National Emergency Committee Against Mob Violence. From left to right: Leslie Perry, Washington D. C. representative of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Boris Shishkin, of the American Federation of Labor; Frederick E. Reissig, of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; President Truman; Walter White, Secretary, NAACP; James Carey, Secretary, Congress of Industrial Organizations; and Dr. Channing Tobias.

Portrait of Joseph D. Keenan which was used in conjunction with his oral history interview.

Left to Right: President Harry S. Truman, Adolf A. Berle (Chairman of the Liberal Party of New York, standing) and Alex Rose with the American Federation of Labor and the Liberal Party. They watch Truman sign a document in the oval office. Donor: Dorothy Girton. Used by Democratic Digest.

President Truman greets and thanks representatives of the CIO Executive Board which endorsed his candidacy for re-election in November. L to R: [front] James B. Carey, Secretary Treasurer of CIO; President Truman; Philip Murray, CIO President; [rear] Emil Mazey, Secretary-Treasurer, UAW; Jack Kroll, PAC Director; and Emil Rieve, President of Textile Workers Union. Mazey and Rieve are partially hidden. Donor: Dorothy Girton Used by Democratic Digest.

From left to right, President Harry S. Truman, George Harrison, Chairman of the American Federation of Labor Committee for the Election of President Truman, and J. Howard McGrath, Democratic National Committee Chairman, in the oval office. See photo 76-269. Donor: Dorothy Girton Used by Democratic Digest

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.

The German Secretary of State; Mayor of Heidelberg, Germany; first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss; "His Contact Man;" and the President of the German Trade Union, seated at a table at the Richepost Hotel in Heidelberg, Germany.

The German Secretary of State; Secretary of the German President; President of the German Trade Union; Mayor of Heidelberg, Germany; "His Contact Man"; and, the first president of the Federal Republic of Germany, Theodor Heuss, all seated at a table in Heidelberg, Germany, at the Richepost Hotel.

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.