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UPWA Vice President Addie Wyatt

Date: 12 1978
Description: Addie Wyatt, of the United Packinghouse Worker's Association, is shown seated at a desk speaking during the Merger Talks.
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Playing Cards

Date: 05 10 1955
Description: Members of a musician's union playing cards together.
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AFSCME Executive Board

Date: 09 26 1946
Description: American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees executive board. Thirteen men are sitting around a table.
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American Federation of Laundry Workers

Date: 07 02 1947
Description: Group portrait of American Federation of Laundry Workers Union members taken in the Colonial Room of the Hotel Loraine, 123 West Washington Avenue.
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Federation Building Library

Date: 03 25 1948
Description: Three women clerks sitting at desks in the library in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Building, 448 West Washington Avenue...
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Federation Building Library

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Library in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Building, 448 West Washington Avenue. Also shows two women clerks sitting at de...
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Gorman at AFL-CIO Convention

Date: 1969
Description: Patrick Gorman, president of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen, at the 1969 AFL-CIO convention. Gorman is seated at a table with other leade...
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Contract Bargaining

Date: 1961
Description: Heated contract negotiations of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America.
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Campaign Mailing

Date: 10 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers Auxilary #2 preparing literature for the political campaign of E.V. Bobrowicz. Bobrowicz, an officer of the Fur an...
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Union Solidarity

Date: 1959
Description: Children of striking Peyton Packing Company workers, all of Latin American descent, with gifts sent by union members in Wichita Kansas.
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Packinghouse Staff Workshop at Highlander

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Description: Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing.
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Zilphia Horton Leading Farmers Union Session

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Description: Zilphia Horton playing the accordion and leading a sing-a-long during a Farmers Union session at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton middle at table; DeJa...
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Annual CIO Convention

Date: 1944
Description: Southern CIO regional directors and other CIO officials meet during the CIO convention to plan a CIO term at Highlander. Myles Horton is in the lower right...
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Young Woman Teaching Labor Class

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Description: A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School.
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Meatpackers Dance

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Description: Dance sponsored by the Women's Activities Committee of Local 13 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America union. Although the location is unidentified...
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UPWA Officers

Date: 02 11 1949
Description: Swearing-in ceremony for Local 190 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America in Detroit by field representative George Sinclair: Daniel Penn, president...
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Strikers' Soup Kitchen

Date: 11 16 1955
Description: Striking employees, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, of the Kind & Knox Company, enjoy a break from their picket line responsibil...
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Bargaining Pointers

Date: 08 1965
Description: The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ...
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Packinghouse District Convention

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Description: An undated photograph of a convention of District 1 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign in the background bears a picture of President Fr...
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Madison Truck Drivers Union

Date: 02 06 1952
Description: Group portrait of the recently elected officers of the Madison Truck Driver Local 442 Union. Front row, left to right: Leslie White, business agent and rec...

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