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| Description: | Banquet for African-American delegates to the convention of the Alabama State Industrial Union Council. |
| 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: | A booth at an Alabama fair (probably at Florence) sought support for the striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 680 who worked for the R.L. ... |
| Date: | 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Charles Hayes (fourth from the right), an officer of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with the UPWA delegation to the march. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Booth sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 46 at the Black Hawk County Fair. The booth included a special exhibit that illustrated how both... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Delegates to the first Women's Activities Conference sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign behind the three women concerns the im... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 167 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed by the Swift Company in South St. Paul signing up for strike duty. |
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| Description: | Frank Glovan (wearing a watch on his wrist) president of Teamster Local 407 of Cleveland, listens intently during a special strike meeting called by member... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company... |
| Date: | 01 18 1961 |
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| Description: | The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from across street of various representations of the "Don't Buy Cudahy" boycott campaign outside the Packinghouse Workers headquarters: cartops, women... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 50 at a ceremony marking the closure of the Swift & Company plant in Milwaukee. The local was o... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Wilson Sporting Goods Company in suburban Chicago are Bob Pickles and Ed Cronk. The men were representing the United Packinghouse Workers ... |
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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: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed at the Jones company in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, celebrate after an election victory. |
| Date: | 09 1945 |
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| Description: | View from road of picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 284 at the Globe company plant. |
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