The War Labor Policies Board (WLPB) (1918-1919) was a temporary agency of the United States Government to support American military actions during the end of World War I; future president Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a member.
US President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2, 1917
Wreckage of Chicago's Federal Building after bomb explosion allegedly planted by IWW (1918) – indicates politico-socio-economic climate faced by War Labor Policies Board of 1918-1919
Franklin Delano Roosevelt served the board as the Navy's representative
Felix Frankfurter served as the board's chairman
Max Lowenthal (1888–1971) was a Washington, DC, political figure in all three branches of the federal government in the 1930s and 1940s, during which time he was closely associated with the rising career of Harry S. Truman; he served under Oscar R. Ewing on an "unofficial policy group" within the Truman administration (1947–1952).
Max Lowenthal in his Washington office (1939)
Logo of the Russian-American Industrial Corporation, brainchild of Sidney Hillman.
George Woodward Wickersham.
Former U.S. Senator Burton K. Wheeler served as Lowenthal's counsel before HUAC in 1950