the Board of Trustees of Charlotte Hall Military Academy. Mr.
Schuster lives at 3310 Dorchester Road in Baltimore. He is married
and has two sons, Stuart, who is vice president of United Sanitary
Chemicals Company, and Lanny, a student at the University of
Maryland. Mr. Schuster is a member of the Advertising Club of
Baltimore, the Mercantile Club and the Beth-El and Beth Tfiloh
Hebrew Congregations.
The term of the commissioner coincides with that of the Governor.

ADDRESS, AFL-CIO CONVENTION
BALTIMORE

November 30, 1959

I thank you very much for the privilege of being here with you
today.

As a Maryland Democrat, I feel very much at home when I am
with a group of Maryland working men and women. The friend-
ship which exists between organized labor and the Democratic Party
in Maryland is based on a long history of mutual trust and confi-
dence. In Maryland, organized labor knows that it will be able to
pursue its aims of achieving greater security for its members in an
atmosphere of fair play and understanding.

I am extremely grateful for the assistance which Maryland labor
has given to the Democratic Party, and I can assure you that this
Administration will never be unmindful of the trust and confidence
which has been placed in it by the working men and women of
Maryland. Traditionally, Maryland is not a state given to hasty
action or ill-considered legislative enactments. Because of this avoid-
ance of extremes, the gains made by labor in this State are solid
gains — not momentary advantages which are here today and gone
tomorrow. The voice of labor in Maryland has steadily been gain-
ing in influence. The growth of industry in the State of Maryland
has been proceeding more rapidly than in almost any other state in
the Union. As a result, there are today in Maryland almost twelve
times as many industrial and production workers as there are agri-
cultural workers. This means that Maryland—which not too many
years ago had a majority of its workers on the farm—is now over-
whelmingly an industrial state. As a result of this trend, an increas-

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