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Hot Dog Quality Control Inspection

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Description: Quality control expert William E. Zimmanck, who began working for Oscar Mayer at age thirteen, inspecting a string of hot dogs.
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Women Workers and Sausage Links

Date: 1949
Description: Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant.
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Chicken Processing

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Description: Production line of defeathered chickens.
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Contract Negotiations

Date: 1961
Description: Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with head in hands, exhibits obvious fatigue and frustration during the 1961 Armou...
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Joint Labor Negotiations

Date: 1962
Description: Frank Gorman of the Amalgamated Meatcutters union, and James Hoffa of the Teamsters, signing an agreement to bargain cooperatively with the F.M. Stamper Co...
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Union Solidarity

Date: 1959
Description: Children of striking Peyton Packing Company workers, all of Latin American descent, with gifts sent by union members in Wichita Kansas.
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"Down with McCarthyism"

Date: 02 22 1954
Description: Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz...
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Kennedy Presidential Campaign

Date: 1960
Description: Senator John F. Kennedy, then campaigning for the presidency, speaks with Frank D. Reeves and Marjorie Lawson during a meeting of the American Council on H...
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Eleanor Roosevelt

Date: 09 03 1942
Description: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking from a podium to an international youth assembly. The original caption indicates that she told the audience that thei...
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First AFL-CIO Convention

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of the first national convention after the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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Contract Ratification Vote

Date: 10 1962
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 783 voting on the contract with the Swift Company.
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Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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Charles Hayes of the UPWA

Date: 03 1958
Description: Charles Hayes (center), director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 and a national leader in UPWA's efforts to organize and support t...
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NAACP and UPWA

Date: 1960
Description: Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso...
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Bargaining Pointers

Date: 08 1965
Description: The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ...
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Goodwill Workshop

Date: 09 09 1949
Description: As part of its participation in the local Community Fund, several members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 117 employed by the Kingan Packing Company v...
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UPWA-AMCBW Merger

Date: 1968
Description: Patrick Gorman (right) of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, and next to him, Ralph Helstein of the United Packinghouse Workers of Amer...

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