Title	Labor leaders at a meeting, 1930s
Identifier	L1984-70_552
Date of original	1935; 1936
Decade	1930s
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.
Subject	Labor leaders Labor union meetings Labor disputes
Subject (names)	Green, William, 1870-1952 Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 Rieve, Emil, 1892-1975 Baldanzi, George, 1907-1972 American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) AFL-CIO Textile Workers Union of America Potofsky, Jacob S. (Jacob Samuel), 1894-1979
Subject (depicted)	Labor leaders Meetings Public speaking
Location depicted	United States
Collection	AFL-CIO Region 8 records
Curatorial area	Southern Labor Archives
Digital publisher	Georgia State University Library
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Citation	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.
Source format	photographic prints
Format	image/jp2
Type	Image