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Worker Harassment
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Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restraining order the strikers were "walking" along a public street. This picture is important because United Packinghouse was one of the few unions that attempted to organize Southern Blacks.
June 1955
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Striking Sugar Workers
1955
Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by urging a product boycott. This picture is ...
Strike Kitchen
Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing Company.
Libby Strikers
March 1950
Publicity pictures of striking employees of the Libby company, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Support the Sugar Workers
May 1948
On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking sugar workers.
Swift Strikers
1959
Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being loaded on a train.
Sugar Scabs
August 16, 1955
Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on strike.
