At a meeting held in New York on May 26, 1917, just months after the United States entered World War I on the side of the allied powers, British labor leaders provided counsel to American labor leaders on how American unions could best help the war effort. Among the American labor leaders present was Grand Chief Warren S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. He is standing to the far right, directly above a sitting Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor. The war delayed Stone's plans to found the first union-owned bank in America until 1920, and thus indirectly also delayed the eventual building of that bank's building--the Standard Building--until 1925. | Source: Library of Congress Photo CollectionDownload Original File
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"American and British Labor Leaders in WWI" appears in: Standard Building
