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Opens Labor Nonpartisan League Convention. Washington, D.C., March 8. With labor leaders from all sections of the country, Maj. George L. Berry, President of the Labor Nonpartisan League, is shown presiding at the opening session of the League's convention in Washington today. The convention will mark the climax of an intensive campaign by the League to show Congress and the country that labor is solidly behind the President in his efforts to modernize the Federal Judiciary, 3/8/1937

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Opens Labor Nonpartisan League Convention. Washington, D.C., March 8. With labor leaders from all sections of the country, Maj. George L. Berry, President of the Labor Nonpartisan League, is shown presiding at the opening session of the League's convention in Washington today. The convention will mark the climax of an intensive campaign by the League to show Congress and the country that labor is solidly behind the President in his efforts to modernize the Federal Judiciary, 3/8/1937

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