American politician US President Bill Clinton meets with the AFL-CIO Executive Council in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House,...
Wind-blown President Kennedy walks without a topcoat in brisk 40-degree weather as he returns to the Hotel Carlyle in New York early Nov. 5th. The...
President George Meany addresses a conference of about 800 union delegates to discuss labor's legislative goals for the year. Meany called on union...
Walter Reuther, President of the CIO, announces to newsmen that the CIO Executive Board has approved the AFL-CIO merger agreement. Reuther made the...
President Dwight D Eisenhower poses in his office today with four civil rights leaders following their conference on problems of school integration...
George Meany , AFL President and Walter P Reuther, CIO President, hold a giant gavel symbolizing the merger of two labor unions, October 1965.
Washington, D.C.: AFL-CIO President George Meany tells a news conference the federation is asking a federal court to prevent President Carter from...
New York, New York: Vice President Hubert Humphrey is shown at the reviewing stand as he watches the Labor Day parade. With him on his left is Louis...
San Francisco: Senators Eugene McCarthy, , and Edward M. Kennedy greet one another, as they share a platform here, at local AFL-CIO fund raising...
President George Meany, at a news conference August 10th, warned members of congress considering legislation to end the airline strike not to do...
As striking welfare workers applaud them, Ishmael Lehab , Vice President of the Social Service Employees Union, Joseph Tepedino , President of the...
Charles MacGowan of the boilermakers union is shown conferring with George Meahy, president of the AFL-CIO prior to the first session of the...
Walter Reuther, President of the CIO, left, and Michael J. Quill, President of the transport workers union obliged photographers with this smiling...
Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, is shown addressing the 1450 delegates from 141 national and international unions at the first...
President George Meany and Vice President Walter Reuther join in a greeting to the crowd of about 10,000 attending a meeting of the newly-merged...
The merger of the CIO and AFL was ratified today by the CIO, bringing more than 15 million union members into one house of labor. ALL J. Quill,...
George Meany president of the newly merged AFL-CIO Federation, left, and Walter Reuther who heads the organization's industrial union department,...
Addington Wagner, National Commander of the American Legion is shown as he addressed delegates of the AFL-CIO today. In a prepared address Wagner...
Dave Beck, president of the 1 000 member Teamsters Union, whose demand that his union be admitted to the Industrial Union Department of the merged...
Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, left, is shown being greeted by George Meany, president of the newly merged AFL-CIO Labor Federation, as the...
George Meany , who was president of the American Federation Labor before the merger with the CIO, has his hands held by Walter Reuther, who was...
The table at which delegates from the Teamsters Union were to sit was empty today at the convention of the newly merged AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO faced...
Washington, DC: Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa gives the "V" sign November 15 at the AFL-CIO convention.
Cleveland, Ohio: Labor Boss Speaks. AFL President George Meany, , addresses the 15th Constitutional convention of the United auto Workers, CIO, to...
Washington: Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO, speaks beneath a statue of labor leader Samuel Gompers. Kirkland said that the nation's labor...
Washington, D. C. -- Labor Leaders Resume Peace Negotiations. Leaders of the CIO and AFL are shown at the Labor Department, March 8, seated, left to...
Challengers AFL-CIO Leadership. Washington: United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther, shown at a news conference here today, said that the...
Miss Betty Furness, Special Assistant to the President on Consumers Affairs, seems a bit surprised at having been given a AFL-CIO pin by President...
Portrait of Lane Kirkland, administrative assistant to George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO. He later became the second man to be elected in the...
George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO is shown in his keynote speech to 1,200 delegates at the Annual Convention in Atlantic City. Meany declared...
Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa, seeking election as president of the world's largest union, leads a parade of his supporters down Washington...
Ponderers three. Washington, D.C.: A striking study of three faces made during the dedication ceremonies of the new AFL-CIO headquarters building in...
Members of the United Steelworkers Union Bill Sutton, left, Ross Calder and Don Bowis, right, are shown with their union plaque as they attended the...
President at dedication of new labor headquarters. Washington, D.C.: President Eisenhower and George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, are shown in...
Washington, DC.: Dedicate $5 000 New Teamsters Building. Pooling their efforts, , George Meany, President of the AFL; Dave Beck, President of the AFL...
George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO is shown in his keynote speech to 1,200 delegates at the Annual Convention in Atlantic City. Meany declared...
Accept joint chairmanship of "Operation Unity." New York, New York: Pierre S. DuPont, 3rd, secretary of E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., right, and...
President Eisenhower poses with members of his committee on governor contracts after the group presented their 3rd annual report today. They reported...
George Meany, , president of the AFL-CIO, congratulates Albert J. Hayes, international president of the International Association of Machinists, as...
Leaders of seven million labor union members authorized payment of one million dollars to support striking steel workers. Walter Reuther, speaking...
George Meany, President of the American Federation of Labor takes notes as a speaker addresses the AFL convention in New York December 1st. Later,...
Washington, D. C.: Members of the new AFL-CIO War Labor Council are shown on the steps of the White House. They were held in session for an hour and...
Here are the men who, as members of the AFL-CIO Executive Council, rule the destinies of some 16 000 members of the merged American Federation of...
President George Meany , and Charles R. Sligh, Jr., former NAM President and now head of its Executive Board, pose for photographers after their...
John Longo, Stamford barber, points to a sign in his shop which tells of his sympathy with striking workers of the Yale & Towne Manufacturing Co....
George Meany , president of the AFL, and Walter Reuther, President of the CIO, talk over merger of the two labor groups at Miami Beach, February 8th....
In what is said to be the worst of the seven recent labor battles in Los Angeles, California, 12 members allegedly affiliated with the Teamsters'...
Washington, D.C.: Ike poses in the White House with Negro leaders, following their conference on problems of school integration and other matters....
Washington, D. C.: As Labor Quit Wage Stabilization Board- Elmer E. Walker, Vice President of the International Association of Machinists, and one of...
Vice President Walter Reuther uses a chart during his appearance before a joint Congressional Economic Committee today. To assure full employment and...
