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| Date: | 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather. |
| Date: | 11 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa... |
| Date: | 07 29 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers pouring alloy into a stream of iron in the foundry of International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory was located at 2600 West 1st Blvd. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | An African American worker driving a partially assembled International 8-16 tractor on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Another... |
| Date: | 11 10 1926 |
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| Description: | Workers, including some African Americans, assembling mower gear housings along an assembly line at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Midge Miller of Madison talking with an unidentified supporter of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention. Listening intently to their conversation is... |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman at International Harvester's Tractor Works is looking through a filing cabinet or a card catalog. Other people are working in the background. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers handle metal parts at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory workers work on an assembly line at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 03 1974 |
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| Description: | A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen... |
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| Description: | The training school for stewards sponsored by Local 56 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. At the blackboard is Otis L. Simmons, the local pres... |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 25 voting to authorize a strike against the Wilson Packing Company. The authorization passed 10 to ... |
| Date: | 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Four members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 56 employed at the Illinois Meats Company: (left to right) Bill Murdock, Mike Mickle, Bill... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company... |
| Date: | 08 1965 |
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| 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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