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Lithographers Drinking Beer After a Union Meeting

Date: 12 11 1954
Description: Members of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, relaxing after a union meeting.
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Turkey Processing

Date: 1975
Description: Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market.
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Joint Labor Negotiations

Date: 1962
Description: Frank Gorman of the Amalgamated Meatcutters union, and James Hoffa of the Teamsters, signing an agreement to bargain cooperatively with the F.M. Stamper Co...
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Meat Cutters

Date: 1945
Description: Unionized slaughterhouse workers of the P. Brennan Company of Chicago.
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Children on the Picket Line

Date: 05 01 1948
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...
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Madison Labor Co-op Committee

Date: 09 15 1947
Description: Members of the Madison Labor Co-op committee are shown at a meeting at the new East side co-op grocery store, 3055 East Washington Avenue, which will have ...
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Packinghouse Worker Cutting Pig

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Description: A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work".
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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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Strike Kitchen

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Description: Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C...
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Labor at Jones Dairy

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Description: Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed at the Jones company in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, celebrate after an election victory.
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Packaging Bacon

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Description: Workers at an Armour plant package bacon for the market. In addition to their hats that say "Anytime is turkey time," the women are all wearing their Amalg...
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Milwaukee Labor Leaders

Date: 1962
Description: Members of Milwaukee Livestock Handlers, Local 567 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, celebrate their 10th anniversary.
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Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 15 1946
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...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mabel Pope, assistant secretary of the Local 233 Bakers and Confectioner's Union, operates a bread-wrapping machine at the Kroger Bakery, located at 1053 E...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Ruby Allman (right), secretary of Local 538 Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workmen of North America at Oscar Mayer and Company, signs up Dorothy Braun...

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