George Meany and Walter Reuther Shaking Hands with Adlai Stevenson

(Original Caption) George Meany president of the newly merged AFL-CIO Federation, left, and Walter Reuther who heads the organization's industrial union department, right, are shown as they welcomed Adlai Stevenson to the convention session today. Stevenson strongly endorsed the merger and said "It remains basically important that labor's relationship to the rest of society be faced soberly, not as an excuse for arousing passions and fears, but as an opportunity for increasing democracy's strength to its maximum."