Lot-1945-7: WWII-Homefront. Left to right: Ferdinand Smith, national secretary, National Maritime Union. He is from New York; Alderman Earl B Dickerson of Chicago, a member of the President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practices; and Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board. These two men came in on an appointment arranged by Phil Murray to present to Mr. Nelson, a plan for making fuller use of the African-American man-power in war production. Office of War Information. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. (2017/05/19).