WHY RCIA MOVED HEADQUARTERS FROM LAFAYETTE TO WASHINGTON IN 1954
Scope and Content Note: Lafayette was “a nothing town,” and the union had outgrown its building. Also, Washington, D.C., had become the headquarters of the labor movement. Meyers was in Washington when the headquarters were moved there. Suffridge told him to move the Eastern Division office to Philadelphia, and just before Meyers moved himself there, Suffridge appointed Plopper Eastern Director and put Meyers in the International office.