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| Date: | 07 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally. |
| Date: | 05 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac workers from the Battery Workers' Union and Machinists' Union picketing for higher wages, better working conditions, and better pension plan. Ant... |
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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... |
| 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: | 11 1955 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America picketers protest the hiring of temporary scab labor by the Colonial Provisions Company. Although no location or dat... |
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| Description: | A booth sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America at a fair in Indiana. During the early 1950s UPWA conducted a major outreach effort in the ... |
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| Description: | Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing... |
| 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 1949 |
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| Description: | An unidentified striking member of the United Packinghouse Workers of America at the Jones-Chambliss company. This photograph appeared in the Packinghouse ... |
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| Description: | The strike against the Kohler Company, which began in 1954, was one of the longest strikes in American history. Many of the strikers' fellow unionists supp... |
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| Description: | View across lot of a crowd of workers on strike. Some hold signs, while one holds an American flag. |
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| Description: | View across lot of a crowd of workers on strike gathered near a building. Some of them carry signs and a flag. |
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| Description: | Striking men and women workers march together carrying signs. |
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| Description: | Two female workers on strike pose together, smiling. Other striking workers, both men and women, are visible behind them. |
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| Description: | Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing. |
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| Description: | A group of striking workers march together carrying signs near a railroad crossing. |
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| Description: | Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing. |
| 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 13 1946 |
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| Description: | A United Public Workers parade/demonstration from an adjacent sidewalk. The line of participants including a horse-drawn wagon stretches into the distance.... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Several people marching together. A man and woman are marching in the front next to each other; the woman is holding a cigarette. A sign reads: "[Danville]... |
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