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Goodbye to Local 50
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Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was organized about 1932 by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, but it left to join the CIO's UPWA when that union was formed in 1937. The men are (left to right) Felix Wright, John Maren, Eddie Hampton, Calvin Birts, Henry Schroeder (president), and Emil Sobstad.
1962
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Representation Election
September 1962
Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers (AMC...
Packinghouse Strike
April 1962
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 organizing integrated locals.
Just the Facts
1962
During a long strike by United Packinghouse Workers Local 156, the Teamsters union attempted to lure the strikers into their union. To combat that effort, UPWA official Tom Moss distributed a leafl...
UPWA-AMCBW Merger
1968
Patrick Gorman (right) of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, and next to him, Ralph Helstein of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, raise their hands at their 1968 merge...
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...
Contract Ratification Vote
October 1962
Members of United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 783 voting on the contract with the Swift Company.
