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Delegates Registering at ICFTU Conference
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Several men are seated at a table, some of them filling out forms. Others people are in the background. Caption reads: "U.S. delegates registering at ICFTU [International Confederation of Free Trade Unions] Western Hemisphere conference, Mexico City. Jan. 1951. L to R: Fred Dowling of the CIO Packinghouse Workers, fr. Canada; Martin Kyne, of the CIO Wholesale and Retail Clerks; Dr. Ernst Schwarz, secy.; CIO Latin Am. Committee; David McDonald, secy-treas. CIO Steel Workers; John Brophy, ICFTU rep. at U.N.; Wm. C. Doherty, pres. Letter Carriers, AFL; E. O. Knight, pres., CIO Oil Workers; Lewis Clark, secy-treas CIO Packinghouse Workers; L. S. Buckmaster, pres. CIO Rubbert [sic] Workers; and Wm. Pollock, secy-treas CIO Textile Workers."
January 1951
American Labor Magazine
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