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![[Group next to airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTIvMDEvMDEvZ3JvdXAtbmV4dC10by1haXJwbGFuZS0xLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/27/webp "[Group next to airplane] - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.")
![In spotlight at CIO-A.F. of L. peace meeting. Washington, D.C., Oct. 26. Leaving the CIO-AF of L peace meeting at the Willard Hotel today these three CIO leaders told newsmen that proposals of the Committee for Industrial Organization caused a sensation when offered at the confab. Under the terms the CIO offered to return to the American Federation of Labor as an independent, a situation that which would probably result in the CIO becoming the dominant wing of the American Labor Movement. Left to right: Charles Howard, President of the International Typographical Union and Secretary of the CIO; Philip Murray, Chairman of the CIO Delegation [...] meeting; and Joseph Curran, President of the National Maritime Union. 10/26/37](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTUvMTEvMjUvaW4tc3BvdGxpZ2h0LWF0LWNpby1hZi1vZi1sLXBlYWNlLW1lZXRpbmctd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi1kYy1vY3QtMjYtbGVhdmluZy10aGUtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/31/webp "In spotlight at CIO-A.F. of L. peace meeting. Washington, D.C., Oct. 26. Leaving the CIO-AF of L peace meeting at the Willard Hotel today these three CIO leaders told newsmen that proposals of the Committee for Industrial Organization caused a sensation when offered at the confab. Under the terms the CIO offered to return to the American Federation of Labor as an independent, a situation that which would probably result in the CIO becoming the dominant wing of the American Labor Movement. Left to right: Charles Howard, President of the International Typographical Union and Secretary of the CIO; Philip Murray, Chairman of the CIO Delegation [...] meeting; and Joseph Curran, President of the National Maritime Union. 10/26/37")
