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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Four women butcher workers in white lab coats hand tie sausage links at the Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 04 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago. |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t... |
| Date: | 08 1949 |
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| Description: | Four Texas workers with a picket sign that uses their wartime service and sacrifices to negotiate for a union contract. |
| Date: | 01 06 1945 |
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| Description: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt smiles as he concludes his 1945 radio state of the nation address. |
| Date: | 09 03 1942 |
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| Description: | First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt speaking from a podium to an international youth assembly. The original caption indicates that she told the audience that thei... |
| Date: | 01 16 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
| Date: | 09 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Emma Milton (left) of Omaha, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Union local 60, is seen here circulating a petition to save the rent control institute... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Newman, public relations director of the Rath packing company, takes photographs of striking workers from a window of the company's factory. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | To foster better farmer-labor union relations, members of United Packinghouse Workers locals 8 and 169 organized a singing caravan that performed at fairs ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | An unidentified United Packinghouse of America member. He is wearing badges that identify him as an employee at the Swift Company plant in Chicago and the ... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. |
| Date: | 10 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Swearing-in ceremony for Local 190 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America in Detroit by field representative George Sinclair: Daniel Penn, president... |
| Date: | 07 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo... |
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