Plan for taking of unemployment [...] Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. Government [...]labor leaders met at the White House today [...] John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator to formulate plans for compiling the first unemployment census in the United States. In the photograph, left to right (seated): A.F. Whitney, Pres. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainman; Secretary of Labor Perkins; Secretary of Commerce Roper; Administrator John D. Biggers; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Stuart A. Rice, Chairman, Central Statistical Board; William L. Austin, Director of the Census. Standing, left to right: John L. Lewis, CIO Head; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Business Advisory Council; Allen Johnstone, Counsel of the Special Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment Relief; Dorrington Gill, substituting for Harry Hopkins; M.W. Thatcher, Pres. of the Farmer National Cooperative Grain Corp.; George H. Davis, Pres. of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Frank Persons, Director of U.S. Employment Service; Chester M. Gray, Representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Noel Sargent, Secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers; Fred Breckman, representing the National Grange; T.B. Uttley, Supt. Division Post Office Service; Boris Shif[...], representing William Green; and Arthur Altmeyer [...] Security Board, 9/27/37
![Plan for taking of unemployment [...] Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. Government [...]labor leaders met at the White House today [...] John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator to formulate plans for compiling the first unemployment census in the United States. In the photograph, left to right (seated): A.F. Whitney, Pres. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainman; Secretary of Labor Perkins; Secretary of Commerce Roper; Administrator John D. Biggers; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Stuart A. Rice, Chairman, Central Statistical Board; William L. Austin, Director of the Census. Standing, left to right: John L. Lewis, CIO Head; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Business Advisory Council; Allen Johnstone, Counsel of the Special Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment Relief; Dorrington Gill, substituting for Harry Hopkins; M.W. Thatcher, Pres. of the Farmer National Cooperative Grain Corp.; George H. Davis, Pres. of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Frank Persons, Director of U.S. Employment Service; Chester M. Gray, Representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Noel Sargent, Secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers; Fred Breckman, representing the National Grange; T.B. Uttley, Supt. Division Post Office Service; Boris Shif[...], representing William Green; and Arthur Altmeyer [...] Security Board, 9/27/37](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvcGxhbi1mb3ItdGFraW5nLW9mLXVuZW1wbG95bWVudC13YXNoaW5ndG9uLWRjLXNlcHQtMjctZ292ZXJubWVudC1sYWJvci1sZWFkZXJzLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "Plan for taking of unemployment [...] Washington, D.C., Sept. 27. Government [...]labor leaders met at the White House today [...] John D. Biggers, Unemployment Census Administrator to formulate plans for compiling the first unemployment census in the United States. In the photograph, left to right (seated): A.F. Whitney, Pres. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainman; Secretary of Labor Perkins; Secretary of Commerce Roper; Administrator John D. Biggers; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace; Stuart A. Rice, Chairman, Central Statistical Board; William L. Austin, Director of the Census. Standing, left to right: John L. Lewis, CIO Head; W. Averill Harriman, Chairman of the Business Advisory Council; Allen Johnstone, Counsel of the Special Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment Relief; Dorrington Gill, substituting for Harry Hopkins; M.W. Thatcher, Pres. of the Farmer National Cooperative Grain Corp.; George H. Davis, Pres. of U.S. Chamber of Commerce; W. Frank Persons, Director of U.S. Employment Service; Chester M. Gray, Representing the American Farm Bureau Federation; Noel Sargent, Secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers; Fred Breckman, representing the National Grange; T.B. Uttley, Supt. Division Post Office Service; Boris Shif[...], representing William Green; and Arthur Altmeyer [...] Security Board, 9/27/37")
