- Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
- Title:
- Labor leaders at a meeting, 1930s
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 1935
1936 - Subject:
- Labor leaders
Labor union meetings
Labor disputes
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
AFL-CIO
Textile Workers Union of America - People:
- Green, William, 1870-1952
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953
Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975
Baldanzi, George, 1907-1972
Potofsky, Jacob S. (Jacob Samuel), 1894-1979 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- photographic prints
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Photograph of a meeting of many important union leaders. Speaking is AFL President William Green, and to the right is future CIO Vice President Allan Shaw Haywood. Also pictured are future Textile Workers Union of America President Emil Rieve (seated, far right of first row), Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America leader and future President Jacob Potofsky (to Rieve's right), and future Textile Workers Union of America Vice President George Baldanzi. Based on the date, this meeting may have been the November 1935 AFL Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was at this meeting where John Lewis formed the CIO and began the process of breaking away from the AFL.
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/labor/id/3791
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/labor:3791/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: L1984-70_552, Labor Photographs, AFL-CIO Region 8 records [Folder 32 of 46], AFL-CIO Region 8 records, L1984-70, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Original Collection:
- AFL-CIO Region 8 records
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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