James Joseph Reynolds Jr. (January 8, 1907 – October 9, 1986) was the Under Secretary of Labor during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in the United States.
[1] He graduated from Columbia University with the class of 1928, where he was classmates with future Undersecretary of Labor James T. O'Connell,[2] and worked in finance on Wall Street, co-founding the firm Naumburg & Reynolds, later became Director of Labor Relations in the office of the president of United States Pipe & Foundry.
In August 1946, the Senate gave unanimous approval to President Truman's appointment of Reynolds to the National Labor Relations Board.
They had walked off the job to "protest unsafe conditions, abusive white supervisors, low wages, and to gain recognition for their union.
"[3] On April 5, the day after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., President Johnson instructed Reynolds to go to Memphis to mediate the conflict and settle the strike.