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UPWA Vice President Addie Wyatt

Date: 12 1978
Description: Addie Wyatt, of the United Packinghouse Worker's Association, is shown seated at a desk speaking during the Merger Talks.
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Hot Dog Quality Control Inspection

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Description: Quality control expert William E. Zimmanck, who began working for Oscar Mayer at age thirteen, inspecting a string of hot dogs.
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Wilson Boycott Parade

Date: 1959
Description: As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-...
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AMCBWNA Reps at CLUW Convention

Date: 1974
Description: Delegates from the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen union at the convention of the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
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Gene McCarthy Supporters

Date: 1968
Description: Midge Miller of Madison talking with an unidentified supporter of Eugene McCarthy at the Democratic Convention. Listening intently to their conversation is...
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Contract Bargaining

Date: 1961
Description: Heated contract negotiations of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.
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Strikers' Thanksgiving

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Description: Distribution of holiday turkeys and spam to striking members of the UPWA union. The truck was sent by the local in neighboring Austin where Spam was produc...
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Contract Negotiations

Date: 1961
Description: Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with head in hands, exhibits obvious fatigue and frustration during the 1961 Armou...
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California.
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Shipping Carrots

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of women at an unidentified warehouse, probably in California, sizing, weighing, and bagging carrots for market.
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Loading Melons

Date: 1972
Description: An unidentified worker, probably in California, loading crates of melons onto a refrigerated railroad car.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: White onions are bouncing along a conveyor belt on their way to be inspected, sorted, and bagged.
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente...
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Sugar Scabs

Date: 08 16 1955
Description: Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri...
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Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Russell Lasley

Date: 1951
Description: Russell Lasley, an African-american leader of the United Packinghouse Workers union and later the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, meetin...
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Two Faces of the UPWA

Date: 1948
Description: Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d...
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Informational Picket

Date: 1950
Description: Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co....
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Swift Workers on Strike

Date: 09 1959
Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul.

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