(32690) AFSCME Local 900 members, Panama

This photo, first published in AFSCME’s Public Employee magazine in May, 1968, carried the caption, ”Chairman Sylvester D. Callendar, left, of Panama Canal Company Employees Local 900’s Consumer Co-op, accepts pledges of purchases of Co-op shares from Luis Puleio, representing a delegation from Armed Forces Employees Local 907. From left are Callendar; Alvin Burnett, a Local 900 member who has purchased more than $200 in share; Pulieo; Jorge Del Cid; Luis Escobar and Victor Barrett. The Co-op Committee is raising $300,000 to set up the first of four supermarkets for the benefit of local members.”