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Russell Lasley
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Russell Lasley, an African-american leader of the United Packinghouse Workers union and later the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, meeting with Lester Heard, a union member from Tennessee. That state was then attempting to extradite the man from Illinois, as he was wanted for an automobile accident involving a white woman. Heard feared mob violence if he returned. Here Lasley is seen attempting to intervene with Governor Adlai Stevenson in order to help Heard.
1951
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Labor Institute
The summer labor institute sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. The delegates are probably all representatives of District 3. Russell Lasley, who would become a vice-president o...
Martin Luther King and Labor Leaders
Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA convention.
Wilson Meatcutters Local
Exterior view of men walking into the Chicago headquarters of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Local 594, all employees of the Wilson Packing Company.
UPWA-AMCBW Merger
1968
Patrick Gorman (right) of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, and next to him, Ralph Helstein of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, raise their hands at their 1968 merge...
Hanna Swears in Milwaukee Labor Leaders
April 1974
Hilton Hanna (left), a national leader in the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, swears in the new officers of Local 248 in Milwaukee.
