Ralph Morgan Badge

In 1938, Guild president Ralph Morgan received this badge when he was a Guild representative at the 39th Annual Convention of the California State Federation of Labor, in Santa Barbara. (Ralph's youngest sister, Zoyla Cook, lived in Santa Barbara then, so he might have snuck away to pay her a visit!) The medal attached to the ribbon is embossed with the seal of the American Federation of labor, and the motto, in Latin: "Labor Omnia Vincit" - Work Conquers All. The badge was donated to the Guild in 1999 by actress Frances Tannehill, a friend of Ralph's late daughter, actress Claudia Morgan.