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Butchering Beef

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Description: Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass.
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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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Packinghouse Workers

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Description: A group of packinghouse workers from an unidentified location processing pigs.
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Packinghouse Workers at Cutting Table

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Description: A group of African American packinghouse workers at an unidentified location cutting slabs of pork.
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Packinghouse Workers on Processing Line

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Description: A group of packinghouse workers on the processing line, tending to pigs.
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Union Solidarity

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Description: In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ...
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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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