




AFSCME leaders pose at the April 1950 John DeLury dinner in New York City. From left: President Arnold Zander; Joseph P. Kennan; John J. DeLury, president of AFSCME Local 308
who went on to establish New York City's Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association Local 851 and eventually had a city plaza named after him; and Jerry Wurf, a New York City AFSCME leader who became international president in 1964.