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| 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... |
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| Description: | A booth sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America at a fair in Indiana. During the early 1950s UPWA conducted a major outreach effort in the ... |
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| Description: | S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company. |
| Date: | 10 1948 |
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| Description: | The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) booth at the Southeastern World's Fair in Atlanta featured local products made by CIO members. Visitors to t... |
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| Description: | Two men stand in front of a booth sponsored by the Congress of Industrial Organizations at a fair. In addition to displays on farmer-labor solidarity and v... |
| Date: | 02 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Swearing-in ceremony for Local 190 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America in Detroit by field representative George Sinclair: Daniel Penn, president... |
| Date: | 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Publicity pictures of striking employees of the Libby company, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. |
| Date: | 07 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo... |
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| Description: | Banquet for African-American delegates to the convention of the Alabama State Industrial Union Council. |
| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
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| Description: | A booth at an Alabama fair (probably at Florence) sought support for the striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 680 who worked for the R.L. ... |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 186 in a picket line at Lookout Oil & Refining Company, a producer of salad and vegeta... |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) Local 186 listen to talk from union representative Grover Hathaway, who is not in the pic... |
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| Description: | Two representatives of the Georgia CIO, C.H. Gillman and Loren Nelleo, visiting with strikers at the Swift company's White Provisions plant. The strikers w... |
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| Description: | Four members of United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 309 (which was part of District 9) on strike against the W.W. Pickle Company. The picket sign carri... |
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