The unions and the New Deal come together to create the planned community of Jersey Homesteads. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, pictured in a campaign poster, was the political figure Shahn most admired. Various figures from the labor movement including Sidney Hillman and Heywood Broun are gathered around a table holding the blueprint for the town of Jersey Homesteads. In the upper right are the cooperative farm and factory—although by the time Shahn finished the mural, in 1938, these ventures had already failed.