The American Labor Party was a political party in the United States established in 1936 that was active almost exclusively in the state of New York. The organization was founded by labor leaders and f
Women surrounded by posters in English and Yiddish supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert H. Lehman, and the American Labor Party teach other women how to vote, 1936.
The American Labor Party elected five men to the New York State Assembly in 1937, shown here. Seated (L-R): Frank Monaco, Nathaniel M. Minkoff. Standing: Gerard J. Muccigrosso (leaning on desk), Salvatore T. DeMatteo, Benjamin Brenner, Saul Minkoff, Jr., clerk, and Samuel Puner, official American Labor Party lobbyist.
American Labor Party rally to re-elect President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940.
Pinback button issued by the American Labor Party.
Fiorello Henry La Guardia was an American attorney and politician who served as the 100th mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1946. He previously represented New York in the U.S. House of Representati
American Labor Party
…by ILGWU executive secretary Fred Umhey, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union's Jacob Potofsky, and Alex Rose of the Milliners'. The party supported Fiorello La Guardia during the 1937 New York City mayoral election and he received 482,790, 21.6% of the popular vote, on their ballot line. They were the second-largest…
Portrait by The New York Times, c. 1934–1945
La Guardia at his Interpreter's desk on Ellis Island c. 1910
Portrait by Underwood & Underwood, 1918
Mayor La Guardia speaks over WNYC on Grade A milk from Budget Room, March 23, 1940