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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America records, 1903-1980
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| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Raising their right hands, an unidentified group of union members voting at the American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, at the 1969 AFL-CIO convention. Gorman is seated at a table with other leade... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Several members of the Wisconsin delegation who support Eugene McCarthy, gather around the state sign at the National Democratic Convention. Only Hilton H... |
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| Description: | A woman worker on the poultry line at an unidentified packer, probably in Chicago. All of the other workers, all of whom were represented by the Amalgamate... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| 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: | 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
| Date: | 02 22 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | At an unidentified kosher butcher shop, a butcher holds up a chicken for a customer to examine. A sign in the background indicates that the butchers were m... |
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| Description: | At Lou Braslawsky's kosher meat market, a butcher holds a roast for a customer to examine. A sign at the back of the store suggests that chickens, not beef... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 04 1962 |
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| Description: | Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org... |
| Date: | 10 1975 |
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| Description: | Picket line of Madison Local 444 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers union on strike against the Packerland Packing Co. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator John F. Kennedy campaigning at a labor rally. |
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