Government, business, and labor leaders meeting in Washington, D. C., September 1945

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Photograph. American government, business, and labor leaders meeting indoors at a table at a labor-management conference called by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. Official Caption: "Rome. 9/21/45--Government, Business And Labor Leaders Meet In U.S. Capital--Government, business, and labor leaders meet in Washington the U.S. capital, on Sept. 6, 1945, to select a committee to arrange an agenda for a labor-management conference called by U.S. President Harry S. Truman in an effort to eradicate causes for labor disputes. The conference will start in Washington on October 29 or on Nov. 5. Left to right are: Eric Johnston, President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Ira Mosher, President of the National Manufacturers Association; U.S. Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace; U.S. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schellenbach; Reconversion Director John W. Snyder; and the heads of the two largest U.S. labor unions, William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, and Philip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Photo through U.S.I.S. Rome (D List Out), 43892-PHE."”Washington, D.C. 21 September 1945

Image Information

Donor: 
Dylan Utley
Accession Number: 
2012.019.484
Date: 
09/21/1945
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Campaign / Event: 
Home Front production (1942-45)
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Topical Subjects: 
Meetings--District of Columbia
Government officials--American--District of Columbia
Business people--American--District of Columbia
Labor leaders--District of Columbia
Collection Level: 
Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
Geography: 
District of Columbia
Latitude: 
38.833
Longitude: 
-77.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Meetings--District of Columbia
Government officials--American--District of Columbia
Business people--American--District of Columbia
Labor leaders--District of Columbia