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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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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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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con...
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Charles Hayes of the UPWA

Date: 03 1958
Description: Charles Hayes (center), director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 and a national leader in UPWA's efforts to organize and support t...
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Union Christmas Party

Date: 1959
Description: Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)...
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NAACP and UPWA

Date: 1960
Description: Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso...
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Bargaining Pointers

Date: 08 1965
Description: The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ...
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Globe Company Picket Line

Date: 09 1945
Description: View from road of picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 284 at the Globe company plant.
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Just the Facts

Date: 1962
Description: During a long strike by United Packinghouse Workers Local 156, the Teamsters union attempted to lure the strikers into their union. To combat that effort, ...
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Goodwill Workshop

Date: 09 09 1949
Description: As part of its participation in the local Community Fund, several members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 117 employed by the Kingan Packing Company v...
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Packer Parade

Date: 1971
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ...
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UPWA-AMCBW Merger

Date: 1968
Description: Patrick Gorman (right) of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, and next to him, Ralph Helstein of the United Packinghouse Workers of Amer...
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Military Meat

Date: 08 1951
Description: At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for co...
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Academy Award-Winning Butcher

Date: 03 11 1956
Description: Actor Ernest Borgnine, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as a butcher in "Marty", reenacted his role for a publicity photograph at a groc...
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Oscar Mayer Plans

Date: 1958
Description: Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., (left) and another Oscar Mayer & Co. official examine plans for a hog immobilization unit to be constructed at the rear of the company...

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