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First Assistant Fire Chief Leonard Sime Retirement

Date: 06 15 1950
Description: Six firefighters are shown at First Assistant Fire Chief Leonard Sime's retirement party inside the Central Fire Station, 18 South Webster Street. Lieutena...
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Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt

Date: 1933
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt and her daughter Anna have the NRA labels in their coats inspected by David Dubinsky, president of the ILG WU (left) and Raymond Ingersol...
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Frank Weber

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Frank Weber wearing a bow tie.
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UPWA's Wilson Strike

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union...
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Fur Workers Rally

Date: 05 28 1963
Description: Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company.
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Strictly Kosher

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Description: At an unidentified kosher butcher shop, a butcher holds up a chicken for a customer to examine. A sign in the background indicates that the butchers were m...
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Packinghouse Strike

Date: 04 1962
Description: Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org...
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Milwaukee Labor Leader

Date: 05 1965
Description: Matthew A Pinter, business agent of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 of Milwaukee, speaks from the floor during a district union convention...
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Ted Kennedy

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Description: Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts at a breakfast meeting with a group of labor leaders.
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Award to Chavez

Date: 1969
Description: Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen...
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Beer, Let's Make It!

Date: 03 10 1959
Description: Close-up of Mrs. Edna Ann Vistart holding up a button bearing the slogan: "Beer, Let's Make It!"
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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: George H. Johnson (left), Gisholt Machine Company president, and Stanley Prideaux (center), president of the United Steelworkers of America, congratulate F...
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Ralph Helstein

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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Ralph Helstein

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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Patrick Gorman

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Description: Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, with Hilton Hanna, of Madison, Wisconsin, also a leader in that interna...
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Anniversary of JFK Assassination

Date: 11 1964
Description: Delegates from the International Labor Press Association place a marker on the grave of President John F. Kennedy to mark the first anniversary of his deat...
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Union Worker Supports Civil Rights

Date: 1960
Description: Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W...
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Orear and Helstein

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Description: Leslie Orear, (left) labor historian and editor of the Packinghouse Worker magazine, with Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Worke...
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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Description: Eleanor Roosevelt addressing a labor union audience from a podium.
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Union Election

Date: 02 06 1973
Description: Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.

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