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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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| Description: | Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, with Hilton Hanna, of Madison, Wisconsin, also a leader in that interna... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt addressing a labor union audience from a podium. |
| Date: | 01 16 1946 |
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| Description: | On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hos... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | George Meany, President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, pins a medal on the lapel of President John F. Kenne... |
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| Description: | Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant. |
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| Description: | In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ... |
| Date: | 11 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the first national convention after the merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
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| Description: | Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C... |
| Date: | 12 21 1951 |
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| Description: | The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | To foster better farmer-labor union relations, members of United Packinghouse Workers locals 8 and 169 organized a singing caravan that performed at fairs ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Farmers and their supporters picket at the National Farm Institute to protest farm prices and their poor economic outlook. |
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| Description: | During the 1930s the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee PWOC) began a national organizing campaign among packinghouse workers. This undated p... |
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