Members of the Administrative Committee at a press conference, California, 1945
Photograph. Four members of the Administrative Committee of the World Trade Union Conference sitting at table at a press conference. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/7/45--World Labor Leaders Meet in U.S.--Members of the Administrative Committee of the World Trade Union Conference hold a press conference in Oakland, U.S. west coast city adjacent to San Francisco, where the United Nations Conference on International Organization [UNCIO] is meeting. Shown are (left to right) Vasily V. Kuzmetsov, Chairman of the all-union Council of Trade Unions of the Soviet Republics and a member of the Soviet delegation to the UNCIO; Phillip Murray, President of the Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]; one of the major U.S. labor organizations; Sidney Hillman, Chairman of the Political Action Committee of the CIO; and Sir Walter Citrine, head of the British Trades Union Congress. The committee members reported that 'remarkable progress' has been made in their efforts to draft a constitution for a world federation of trade unions.--OWI photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A list out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6610." Oakland, California. 7 June 1945