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Packinghouse Workers

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Description: Packinghouse workers splitting a carcass into halves.
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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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Women Workers and Sausage Links

Date: 1949
Description: Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant.
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Beef Dressing Floor

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Description: A Milwaukee member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America gutting a beef carcass on the dressing floor.
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Turkey Processing

Date: 1975
Description: Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market.
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Butchering Beef

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Description: Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass.
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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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Trimming Poultry

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Description: A woman worker on the poultry line at an unidentified packer, probably in Chicago. All of the other workers, all of whom were represented by the Amalgamate...
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Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 04 1948
Description: As an empty truck is entering the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Kansas City, Kansas, striking United Packinghouse employees threaten the drivers by appea...
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Meat Cutters

Date: 1945
Description: Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago.
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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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Swift Company Picketers

Date: 09 09 1956
Description: Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago.
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Swift Strikers

Date: 1959
Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo...
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Women on Strike

Date: 08 1957
Description: Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f...
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Picket Line Compassion

Date: 01 16 1946
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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Union Solidarity

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Description: In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ...
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Strike Kitchen

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Description: Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C...
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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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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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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker...

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