| Title |
Chairman Sewell Avery carried from Montgomery Ward's Chicago office for defying NLRB directive to negotiate with CIO retail union, Chicago, Illinois, April 1946
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| Description |
Chairman Sewell Avery of the board of directors of Montgomery Ward was carried from the firm's Chicago office in April 1946 by two soldiers. He had defied a War Labor Board directive to reach an agreement with his employees and refused to cooperate with the Government after it had seized the Chicago office. The company continued its defiant attitude. Just recently it was ordered by the NLRB to bargain with its employees. For complete collection information, visit the full finding aid at http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42579
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| Extent |
22.5 x 18 cm; 2 images; Photograph; monochrome |
| Date |
1946-04 |
| Location |
Chicago; United States; Illinois; North America |
| Subject(s) |
Avery, Sewell Lee, 1873-1960; Labor; Labor union; AFL-CIO |
| Citation |
AFL-CIO Information Department, Photographic Prints collection, Accession 2014-001-RG96-001, Series 2: Portrait Files, undated, Box : 1, Folder 100: Avery, Sewell |
| Permanent Link |
https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/35081
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| Rights |
http://vocab.lib.umd.edu/rightsStatement#InC-NC
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