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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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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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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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Building Farmer-Labor Solidarity

Date: 1947
Description: Booth sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 46 at the Black Hawk County Fair. The booth included a special exhibit that illustrated how both...
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Women's Activities Delegates

Date: 1953
Description: Delegates to the first Women's Activities Conference sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign behind the three women concerns the im...
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Picket Duty

Date: 1956
Description: Members of Local 167 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed by the Swift Company in South St. Paul signing up for strike duty.
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CIO-Teamsters Solidarity

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Description: Frank Glovan (wearing a watch on his wrist) president of Teamster Local 407 of Cleveland, listens intently during a special strike meeting called by member...
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Don't Buy Cudahy

Date: 1953
Description: Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company...
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Lettuce Strike Picket Line

Date: 01 18 1961
Description: The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike.
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Police Surveillence of Farm Workers

Date: 1961
Description: Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike.
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Lettuce Strike

Date: 1961
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall...
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Striker Arrested

Date: 01 17 1946
Description: Elevated view of a Swift Company striker being taken from the CIO picket line by police. The striker was reported to have been beaten and arrested.
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Don't Buy Cudahy

Date: 1953
Description: View from across street of various representations of the "Don't Buy Cudahy" boycott campaign outside the Packinghouse Workers headquarters: cartops, women...
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Goodbye to Local 50

Date: 1962
Description: 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 o...
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Sporting Goods Strike

Date: 1955
Description: Employees of the Wilson Sporting Goods Company in suburban Chicago are Bob Pickles and Ed Cronk. The men were representing the United Packinghouse Workers ...
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Representation Election

Date: 09 1962
Description: Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgam...

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