"A Life in Labor" Introduction "Little Steel, Maintenance of Membership and Equal pay" "Bringing Peace to the Pacific Shore" "Progressive Roots and a Budding Career" Picture Gallery "Battling for his Beliefs" "Coal, Conflict and a Campaign"

Panel 1

“A Life in Labor”

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Calling for “high tribunals... which would have the power to settle disputes providing capital and labor could not agree in their capacity of collective bargaining” in a college essay, Morse forecast his role on the National War Labor Board by 20 years.

Wayne Morse Papers, Coll. 1.

Wayne, his sister Caryl, and his parents, Wilbur and Jessie, in 1922. Morse's parents were fundamental to the formation of his ideas.

Wayne Morse Papers, Coll. 1.

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Wayne Morse at the University of Oregon in the 1930s. As the Dean of the Law School Morse added to his reputation through his work as a labor arbitrator.

Wayne Morse Papers, Coll. 1 .

Extending his father's dictum, “The outside of a horse is good for the inside of a boy,” into adulthood, Morse kept stables of prize stallions near wherever he lived.

University of Oregon Archives.

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Due to Morse's frequent absences, his daughters cherished the time they spent with their father-except, maybe, story time.

University of Oregon Archives.

Wayne Morse on the campaign trail, ca., 1951.

Wayne Morse Papers, Coll. 1.

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Wayne Morse during his long term of office in the U.S. Senate. Widely respected for his principled stands in the Senate, after 1964 Morse was one of the foremost opponents of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

Wayne Morse Papers, Coll. 1.

 

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Created: 19 February 2001
Last revision: 9/25/06 by N. Helmer
Created by Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries
"A Life in Labor" Introduction "Little Steel, Maintenance of Membership and Equal pay" "Bringing Peace to the Pacific Shore" "Progressive Roots and a Budding Career" Picture Gallery "Battling for his Beliefs" "Coal, Conflict and a Campaign"