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Packaging Bacon
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Workers at an Armour plant package bacon for the market. In addition to their hats that say "Anytime is turkey time," the women are all wearing their Amalgamated Meatcutters Union buttons. The operation was being filmed for television.
Damewood, Orie
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| Creator | Damewood, Orie |
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| Language | English |
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| Format | Image |
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Union Election
February 6, 1973
Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.
Crating Melons
A worker, probably in California, and probably a member of Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union local P78, crating melons for shipment.
Cheap Clothing Imports
1975
Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that read "Wages, Not Welfare." The Butcher Worke...
Turkey Processing
1975
Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market.
Patrick Gorman
Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, with Hilton Hanna, of Madison, Wisconsin, also a leader in that international union.
Union Merger
Events leading up to the merger of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and the United Packinghouse Workers unions included this appearance by Patrick Gorman of the Meatcutters at the UPWA national conventi...
