(12266) St. Louis staff conference

AFSCME staff members attended a staff conference in St. Louis in 1959. Third from right is a young Joe Ames who began his AFSCME career in St. Louis before moving to Washington to become assistant to President Wurf, AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer, and finally AFSCME Judicial Panel chairman. Ames also helped rewrite the AFSCME constitution in 1965.