The superintendent of the mechanical division conducts a group of teachers through the machine shop of the Wester Cartridge Company during the East Alton, Illinois, 1950 Education Day. Reprinted from American Business, Sept. 1950.
This widely distributed NAM comic book advised students to be skeptical of union promises of "cradle to grave" security; courtesy of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Companies used employee magazines to urge workers to attend church. Vernon Alcoan, Apr.-May 1950; courtesy of the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University.
After World War II, conservative religious organizations charged the Federal Council of Churches with advocating communism. Reprinted with permission of Laymen's Commission of the American Council of Christian Churches; courtesy of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Dr. William Holmes Borders speaking at a religion-labor luncheon in Atlanta, Georgia, about 1945. John Ramsey is seated at Borders's right. John Ramsay Papers; courtesy of the Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University.
Bringing labor and the religious community together was a central focus of the CIO's community relations program in the 1950s. John Ramsay is at right. John Ramsay Papers; courtesy of the Southern Labor Archives, Georgia State University.
