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President Truman greets and thanks representatives of the CIO Executive Board

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.

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.

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.

John Steelman and the Railroad Strike Settlement at the White House

John Steelman, center, negotiates a settlement in the Enginemen and Firemen's Railroad Strike of 1950. C.D. MacKay, Chairman of Southeastern Carrier Conference Committee and Assistant Vice President of Southern Railway System, is on the extreme left, and David B. Robertson, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Enginemen and Firemen, is on the extreme right.

President Harry S. Truman Shakes Hands Congress of Industrial Organization Leaders

President Harry S. Truman stands outside the White House with members of the Congress of Industrial Organization's (CIO) Executive Committee shaking their hands in response to their support and promise of financial aid in his election campaign. Standing, from left to right: James B. Carey, Emil Mazey, President Harry S. Truman, Jack Kroll, and Philip Murray. From the scrapbooks of Matthew Connelly, Volume 4.