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| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of International Harvester's Evansville Works employees wearing suits assembled in front of the factory. The Evansville Works produced refri... |
| Date: | 05 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Factory workers clean the "sweep-around" windshield of an International A-100 "Golden Jubilee" truck at International Harvester's Springfield Works. A man ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers work in the cab of an International A-100 "Golden Jubilee" truck while others wipe the "sweep-around" windshield at International Harve... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory superintendent at St. Paul Works. "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. J.E. Harris, left, superintendent of St. Paul Works, confers with M.V.... |
| 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: | 11 20 1942 |
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| Description: | Men constructing guard towers at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. Buildings and a vehicle are in the background. |
| Date: | 03 10 1949 |
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| Description: | A group of men working at tables in the Drafting Department at International Harvester's Tractor Works. An American flag is hanging from the high ceiling i... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting fair hiring practices. Produced by the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 718 Jackson Place, Washington 6, D.C. Prepared by... |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers ready a Cub Cadet lawn tractor for boxing and shipping at International Harvester's Louisville Works. The machines were packaged with ... |
| Date: | 06 1961 |
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| Description: | A factory worker holds a tire as he works to assemble an International Harvester Cub Cadet at the company's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 03 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Police officer and marchers from a Congress of Industrial Organizations (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) union clash outside Intern... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | IH engineer Ted Ornas consults with a student at International Harvester's first styling seminar at the Fort Wayne motor truck engineering department. The ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | IH engineer Ted Ornas consults with a student in International Harvester's first styling seminar at the Fort Wayne motor truck engineering department. The ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits... |
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| Description: | Workers posing outside a factory building at Gisholt Machine Company by a large sign for an employee contest that reads: "Safety Pays at Gisholt." The sign... |
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