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Walter Cappel, CIO Lobbyist

Date: 07 18 1947
Description: Walter Cappel, lobbyist for Wisconsin CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), is sitting on a "plunder box" watching the State Assembly.
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Madison Labor Co-op Committee

Date: 09 15 1947
Description: Members of the Madison Labor Co-op committee are shown at a meeting at the new East side co-op grocery store, 3055 East Washington Avenue, which will have ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 06 16 1948
Description: Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C...
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: George H. Johnson (left), Gisholt Machine Company president, and Stanley Prideaux (center), president of the United Steelworkers of America, congratulate F...
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Wisconsin Central Airlines Union Officers

Date: 01 08 1952
Description: Group portrait of the newly elected officers of the Wisconsin Central Airlines Local No. 780, International Association of Machinists. Seated left to right...
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Madison Truck Drivers Union

Date: 02 06 1952
Description: Group portrait of the recently elected officers of the Madison Truck Driver Local 442 Union. Front row, left to right: Leslie White, business agent and rec...
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Ray-O-Vac Union Officers

Date: 02 09 1952
Description: Group portrait of the officers of the Ray-O-Vac Battery Workers union. Left to right seated are: Evelyn Gotzion, Marion Shaw, Marcia Stich, and Maxine Boyl...
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Local Union Officers

Date: 06 23 1952
Description: New AFSCME union officers of Local 720 of the Dane County Courthouse and Lake View Santorium employees. Left to right: Doris Williams, secretary; Rodney Sc...
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Pearce Roberts

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Portrait of Pearce Roberts, Executive Secretary of the Madison Building Trades Council and past president of the Madison Federation of Labor.
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Teamsters Union Local 442

Date: 01 27 1954
Description: Group portrait of the Teamsters Union Local 442 officers. They are, left to right: Fred Siewert, Secretary-Treasurer; Leslie White, Business Manager; Gordo...
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Honoring Union Members

Date: 12 05 1957
Description: Union Members are honored at a dinner at the Hotel Loraine. They include, from left: Harold Good, Lewis Higley, and Frank Cook. Joseph Frigerio (right), un...
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Honoring Union Members

Date: 12 05 1957
Description: Three charter union members are honored at a dinner. They include, from left, Michael McMahan, Raymond Gunderson, Oscar Richter.
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Orla Coleman

Date: 10 09 1959
Description: Portrait of Orla V. Coleman, business agent of Madison Iron Workers Local 383. Earlier in his career as a iron worker he participated in many construction ...
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Civil Service Act Anniversary Dinner

Date: 01 21 1961
Description: Four members of the American Federation of Government Employees visit with the guest speaker at the dinner to celebrate the 78th anniversary of the United ...

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