LABOR

As economic development and employment were impor-
tant to all of Maryland's state programs, the basic role of
labor was recognized by the Governor in numerous public
statements.

Organized labor did not constitute the principal base of
the Governor's political support, but he made clear that the
programs of the Democratic Party were similar or frequently
the same as those of organized labor and that they should
work together to achieve mutual ends.

PRESS RELEASE, APPOINTMENT OF MURRAY L. SCHUSTER
AS COMMISSIONER OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY

ANNAPOLIS

August 1, 1959

Governor J. Millard Tawes announced today the appointment of
Murray L. Schuster, a Baltimore business man, as commissioner of
labor and industry. Mr. Schuster, widely known as an arbitrator in
labor-management disputes, succeeds Melvin L. Fine, who resigned
from the position several months ago. Mrs. Margaret W. Kimble,
deputy commissioner, has been serving as acting commissioner of
the agency, Governor Tawes, in making the appointment, had before
him a large file of letters from prominent labor officials, business
men and judges of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore praising Mr.
Schuster for his work as an arbitrator in controversies between labor
and management.

Mr. Schuster was born in New York on May 30, 1899. He came
to Baltimore in 1925 and has lived there since. He founded and is
now president of the United Sanitary Chemicals Company, manu-
facturer and distributor of sanitary chemicals, janitors' supplies,
paper products and electric floor machines. He is a member of both
the Federal Mediation Board and the American Arbitration Associa-
tion, and has arbitrated numerous labor disputes for the past ten
years. At one time, he was a member of Local No. 10, International
Ladies Garment Workers Union. He served as a substitute police
magistrate in Baltimore for eight years, under an appointment by
Governor McKeldin, and was appointed by Governor O'Conor to

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