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![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")
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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, 92737
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A black and white photo of a group of men, 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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