NLRB Investigating Committee quizzes Edwin S. Smith, Board member. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. While testifying before the House Committee Investigating the National Labor Relations Board today, Edwin S. Smith, NLRB member, was questioned about a letter he wrote to an official of Filene's Department Store in Boston in which he said that 'any stand' taken by the store in connection with a strike at the Berkshire Knitting Mills plant 'would be listened to with great respect' by the company. The letter was written by Smith to Louis Kirstein, Vice President of Filene's, on Oct. 26, 1936, while a strike was in progress at the Reading, Pennsylvania, Berkshire Mills plant
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A man sitting at a table thinking or listening, 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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