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Get Out the Vote Telephone Drive

Date: 11 05 1958
Description: Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues.
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Farmer-Labor Unity Meeting Speakers

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Six of the speakers for the farmer-labor "unity meeting" held at the Loraine Hotel; left to right: N.R. Johnson, head of the Railway Brotherhoods; Claude R...
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CIO Convention

Date: 11 21 1950
Description: Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel.
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Two Mayors after a CIO Rally

Date: 05 10 1947
Description: Mayor Vincent Totka of Cudahy and Mayor Charles Plotz of South Milwaukee pose for a photograph after greeting a CIO organized rally in South Milwaukee. A l...
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Protesters Lying in the Street

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Numerous protest groups, including the Overpass Light Brigade, and the Student Union Movement, are forming a ring around young protesters as they are lying...
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Waukesha Firemen Picketing

Date: 08 20 1980
Description: Several people are standing or walking along a sidewalk. Some of the people are holding signs, one of which reads: "19 months without a contract." Caption ...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Gisholt employee Union dinner. Sitting at the table are (left to right): Charles Poole, former local union president; James Greene, local union community s...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Sitting at a table and laughing are Gisholt Union members Lloyd Bosben (right), a steward for Local 1404, and Carl Oldenburg, a former member of the grieva...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Stan Prideaux (right), president of Gisholt's Machinist Local Union 1404, is chatting with John Werner (from Milwaukee), State CIO Community Service direct...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Shown at the banquet table are two past presidents of Gisholt's local union: Charles Diehl and Harold Wegmiller. This was the first time since 1937 that al...

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