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The War Labor Policies Board 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
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
The National War Labor Board was an agency of the United States government established on April 8, 1918 to mediate labor disputes during World War I.
War Labor Policies Board
…production of war industries, both those directly under Government control and those industry controlled through the contract-letting power, etc... The National War Labor Board was a court of appeal where principles of the Labor Administration were involved in dispute". An early act was to adopt principles and policies of the…
Meeting of the War Labor Board in New York, January 1919; co-chairs Taft and Manley are third and second from the right in the seated row, respectively