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| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne... |
| Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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| Description: | International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 11 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl... |
| Date: | 07 31 1952 |
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| Description: | View from above of police officers forming a line through striking workers near International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption reads: "Harvest... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking workers from the local 18 of United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers, C.I.O. picketing on a wide downtown sidewalk. The men are walking in a circle h... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union hand out leaflets at the International Harvester Co. plant during the Union's convention. A small crowd of peop... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Skaar (known as Bill), the president of the Battery Workers' Federal Union at the Ray-O-Vac Company. |
| Date: | 01 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Teamsters Union Local 442 officers. They are, left to right: Fred Siewert, Secretary-Treasurer; Leslie White, Business Manager; Gordo... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker's bunks on a railroad car ferry. The spare room has a calendar, light, radiator, table, locking closet and two bunks. Workers' clothes hand on the w... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Two men at work moving railroad cars. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Natio... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries.... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers standing on railroad tracks. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Nation... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Cooks prepare food on a large iron stove while a worker stands holding coffee. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car fer... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Four workers operating an "ancient" winch. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the ... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling coal into furnace. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Nation... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers eating dinner. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the National Maritime Un... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers' toilet. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the National Maritime Union (N... |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Outdoor rally of Allis-Chalmers workers. A man is speaking into a microphone in the front and people stand on the sidewalk and the grassy rise in the backg... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "... |
| Date: | 11 12 1948 |
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| Description: | View from across street of employees of Peters Tools, Local 100, standing on the sidewalk in front of the brick storefront with a number of cases at their ... |
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