1971 Press Photo Thomas Gleason & other labor leaders at AFL-CIO meeting

Thomas W. Gleason (center), President of the International Longshoremen's Association, talks with AFL-CIO President George Meany (left) and I.W. Abel, President of the United Steel Workers at the start of the AFL-CIO executive council meeting today. Gleason later opened wage negotiations aimed at ending the dock strike that has closed ports on the east and Gulf coasts.

Photo is dated 1971.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.