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Labor strategists confer with heads. Washington, D.C., Jan. 1237. In a meeting of labor leaders concerned in the automobile strike against General Motors Corporation, the charges that General Motors were hiring professional strikebreakers in an attempt to put an end to it was made. Homer L. Martin stated that the United Automobile Workers would end the strike if they were given collective bargaining. In the picture, from the left are: Sidney Hillman, member of the CIO; Homer L. Martin, President of the U.A.W.; Leo Pressman, CIO General Counsel; John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers; and John Brophy, Director of the CIO

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Labor strategists confer with heads. Washington, D.C., Jan. 1237. In a meeting of labor leaders concerned in the automobile strike against General Motors Corporation, the charges that General Motors were hiring professional strikebreakers in an attempt to put an end to it was made. Homer L. Martin stated that the United Automobile Workers would end the strike if they were given collective bargaining. In the picture, from the left are: Sidney Hillman, member of the CIO; Homer L. Martin, President of the U.A.W.; Leo Pressman, CIO General Counsel; John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers; and John Brophy, Director of the CIO

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A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

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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 four.

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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01/01/1937
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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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