samuelgompers

I believe the fourth man from the left on the front row is Samuel Gompers. Maybe that can help determine who this group is.

Committee on Emergency Measures by Manufacturers. Part of the September 1921 President's Conference on Unemployment.

Front row (L to R) Sarah Conboy, Secretary of the United Textile Workers of America, Arthur L. Humphrey, President of Westinghouse Air Brake Co., W.H. Stackhouse, President of National Implement and Vehicle Association, Samuel Gompers, President, American Federation of Labor, William H Butler, President, New Bedford Cotton Mills, James Campbell, President, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company, Gordon Lee, Ex Secretary of the Committee.

Second Row: Clarence J Hicks, Executive Assistant to the President of Standard Oil Company, John Penton, Editor of Iron Trade Review, John D. Edgerton, President of Lebanon Woolen Mills, Roy Dickinson, Publisher of Printers Ink, Jackson Johnson, Chairman of International Shoe Company, WC Procter, President, Procter and Gamble, Thomas C Hinman, President of Hand Trading Company.

Source: note on back of image i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LikAAOSwE45mwSFO/s-l1600.jpg

Thanks Seuss.! I was just hoping we'd get the name of the group, but you got names for all of the people too!

Labor leader Samuel Gompers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Gompers

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This is at City Hall during hearings of the Walsh Commission on Industrial Relations.

One of at least 20 pictures from the January, 1915 hearings of The Commission on Industrial Relations (Walsh Commission) www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/tags/walshcommi...

Had I been there, I would have been waiting breathlessly for him to wiggle in that chair a little and made that back leg fall off the stand.

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