Labor unions

Ice sculpture of a donkey at the AFL-CIO political dinner in Oakland, California. From a leather bound album entitled Harry S. Truman Dinner presented by the Central Labor Council of Alameda County, CA. From Robert S. Ash, Executive Secretary, Central Labor Council of Alameda Council.

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, shown leaving the just terminated Fact-Finding Board hearings. This termination paved the way for President Truman to seek a court order sending striking miners back to work. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, shown leaving the Shoreham Hotel after walking out on the soft coal wage conference. Lewis quit the conference when the coal operators voted, over his objections to seat Joseph E. Moody, President of the Southern Coal Producers Association. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, as he appeared before the President's fact-finding board which was investigating the 16-day old coal strike. Mr. Lewis appeared before the board after bowing to a Federal court order and the threat of another contempt citation. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers, shown before the Senate Subcommittee of the Inter-State Foreign Commerce Committee. From: Beth Gore

Photo of United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis talking with American Federation of Labor President William Green at the CIO-AFL unity meeting at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. This meeting represents 13,000,000 worker members. From: Beth Gore

Senator Robert Taft of Ohio welcomes United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis to the Senate Labor Committee where Lewis testified that the effect of "recent intrusions" by the government, in its judicial, legislative and executive branches has been to "arrest collective bargaining the coal industry." From: Beth Gore.

United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis as he read to reporters his letter to members of the union ordering them to return to work. See also 99-703. From: Beth Gore

United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis as he faced reporters in his headquarters after reading the letter ordering the members of his union back to work. He directed that the miners work until March 31, 1947 under the terms of the contract with the Government--the contract that Lewis had tried to terminate. From: Beth Gore

John L. Lewis as he read to reporters his letter to members of the United Mine Workers ordering them to return to work. Mr. Lewis told the newsmen he took this action on his own authority to give the United States Supreme Court time to deliberate on appeals from contempt convictions "free from public pressure superinduced by the hysteria and frenzy of an economic crisis." From: Beth Gore