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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo... |
| Date: | 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Local 1568, United Steelworkers of America (Milwaukee Steel Division, Grede Foundries), after their arrest on the picket line. Left to ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking Allis Chalmbers workers and CIO supporters on parade in 1946. In later years it was common suggested that the Communist-dominated Milwaukee CIO h... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Packinghouse workers and their CIO supporters protest Armour and Company's "back-to-work" day, April 20, 1948. "The 'back to work' movement of Armour & C... |
| Date: | 03 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194... |
| Date: | 02 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Pyramid Motors mechanic Wells "Slim" Kleinfeldt turning an "under cutting," a starting motor armature, in the service shop at 434 West Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 03 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Michael G. O'Neill sitting in a chair with a railroad lantern. He lived at 526 West Wilson Street and worked 40 years for the Milwaukee Road. |
| Date: | 03 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Ben Stitgen, who in 1943 was business agent of Carpenters Local #314, and in 1946 was training officer of the U.S. Veterans Administration. |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Three service wives working at Ray-O-Vac. Left to right: Mrs. Emma Perry, Mrs. Frances Sturdy, and Mrs. Amanda Signer. |
| Date: | 01 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Leonard Smith, a blind employee, working at Forsberg Box Company. |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Jeanne DeBarr, a blind employee working at Forsberg Box Company, with her dog. |
| Date: | 02 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Ira Cole, Gisholt employee for forty-six years, standing at his locker in his work clothes as he retires from work. |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries. |
| Date: | 05 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young. |
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