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103 union presidents meet with Green to urge Congress to change WPA wage-hour rates. Washington, D.C., July 12. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor's national and international unions met today to plan methods of persuading Congress to restore old wage and hour rates of pay for WPA workers who now work 130 hours for the same pay they once received for as little as 55 hours a month. Here are Frank Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer of the AF of L, Herbert Rivers, Secretary and Treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Department, and William Green, President of the AF of L photographed at the meeting this morning

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103 union presidents meet with Green to urge Congress to change WPA wage-hour rates. Washington, D.C., July 12. Leaders of the American Federation of Labor's national and international unions met today to plan methods of persuading Congress to restore old wage and hour rates of pay for WPA workers who now work 130 hours for the same pay they once received for as little as 55 hours a month. Here are Frank Morrison, Secretary-Treasurer of the AF of L, Herbert Rivers, Secretary and Treasurer of the Building and Construction Trades Department, and William Green, President of the AF of L photographed at the meeting this morning

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A group of men standing around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.

The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)

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01/01/1939
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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