Matthew Woll
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Matthew Woll was president of the International Photo-Engravers Union of North America from 1906 to 1929, an American Federation of Labor vice president from 1919 to 1955 and an AFL-CIO vice president
Matthew Woll (center).
George Meany
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William George Meany was an American labor union administrator for 57 years. He was a vital figure in the creation of the AFL–CIO and served as its first president, from 1955 to 1979.
Matthew Woll
…Green is difficult to understate. In many ways, Matthew Woll designed AFL-CIO policy through his relationship with Green and AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer George Meany. Mild-mannered and courtly, Green strongly believed in an evangelical "Christian cooperation" worldview similar to the social gospel, in which men of…
Meany c. 1950–1956
George Meany smoking a cigar, and a cigar also appears in the banner of the League for Industrial Democracy's "Tribute to George Meany".
Meany meeting with Richard Nixon in 1969.