The committee of railroad presidents and railroad union officials forming the Railway Labor Management Conference held a session in Washington, December 18, 1942 with Office of Defense Transportation officials to discuss manpower problems. The group agreed to submit recommendations to the ailroad executives' associations and the railway labor organizations. Reading from left to right are J.J. Pelley, President, Association of American Railroads; E.E. Norris, President, Southern Railway System; L.W., Baldwin, Chief Executive Officer, Missouri Pacific Lines; S.J. Hogan, President, National Marine Engineers Association; E.W. Scheer, President, Reading Railway System; Joseph B. Eastman, Director, Office of Defense Transportation; J.G. Luhrsen, Executive Secretary, Railway Labor Executives' Association; O.S. Beyer, Director, Division of Transport Personnel; D.B. Robertson, President, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; M.W. Clement, President, Pennsylvania Railroad; B.M. Jewell, President, Railway Employees' Department; G.M. Harrison, President, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; A.F. Whitney, President, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen