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AFL v. CIO

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Description: Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing...
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Union Contract Signing

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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.
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Pickets in Uniform

Date: 05 1948
Description: The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We...
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Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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All CIO Made

Date: 10 1948
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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CIO Fair Booth

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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...
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UPWA Officers

Date: 02 11 1949
Description: Swearing-in ceremony for Local 190 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America in Detroit by field representative George Sinclair: Daniel Penn, president...
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Libby Strikers

Date: 03 1950
Description: Publicity pictures of striking employees of the Libby company, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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On Strike at Jones-Chambliss

Date: 02 1949
Description: An unidentified striking member of the United Packinghouse Workers of America at the Jones-Chambliss company. This photograph appeared in the Packinghouse ...
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Groundbreaking

Date: 07 1957
Description: Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, speaking at a ground-breaking ceremony.
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Strike Surveillence

Date: 08 1958
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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CIO Fair Booth

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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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Roosevelt, Truman, and Wallace

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevet, Vice-president elect Harry Truman, and Henry Wallace, the sitting vice-president, riding together in an open car shortly af...
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Strikers' Soup Kitchen

Date: 11 16 1955
Description: Striking employees, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, of the Kind & Knox Company, enjoy a break from their picket line responsibil...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. at Wage Policy Conference

Date: 10 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ...
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Police Surveillence of Labor Organizing

Date: 1940
Description: The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work...
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"Joe Must Go" Petition Signing

Date: 1954
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Cigarette Smoking in Vietnam

Date: 12 16 1968
Description: At Thuong Duc, South Vietnam, a U.S. Marine and a Vietnamese youth share a cigarette break. The UPI caption indicated that the boy acted as if he had been ...
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Poor People's March

Date: 1968
Description: Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march.

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