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Butchering Beef
Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass.
Meat Cutters
1945
Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago.
Sorting Onions
1972
Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California.
Sorting Onions
1972
White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged.
Beef Dressing Floor
A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor.
