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| Date: | 09 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a... |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking Allis Chalmbers workers and CIO supporters on parade in 1946. In later years it was common suggested that the Communist-dominated Milwaukee CIO h... |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally. |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Automobile Workers Union, Local 180 posed outside the tractor works in Racine with a banner indicating their demands. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co.... |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ... |
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| Description: | Striking packinghouse workers on a picket line at an unidentified locality. Sign on side of building reads, "W & W Pickle Co." |
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| Description: | Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles... |
| Date: | 10 1981 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View from across road of picket line of striking employees of the Neuhoff Company who were members of the Amalgamated Meat Packers and Butcher workmen unio... |
| Date: | 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Four Texas workers with a picket sign that uses their wartime service and sacrifices to negotiate for a union contract. |
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