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Postal Employees Picket

Date: 08 1919
Description: Postal workers demonstrate to demand salary increases to meet war-time cost of living increases.
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UAW Strikers at Case

Date: 1960
Description: Striking members of the United Automobile Workers Union, Local 180 posed outside the tractor works in Racine with a banner indicating their demands.
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Two Faces of the UPWA

Date: 1948
Description: Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d...
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Informational Picket

Date: 1950
Description: Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co....
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Zilphia Horton Singing on Picket Line

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Description: Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ...
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Packinghouse Picket Line

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Description: Striking packinghouse workers on a picket line at an unidentified locality. Sign on side of building reads, "W & W Pickle Co."
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UFCW Strike

Date: 10 1981
Description: Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253.
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Garment Workers Strike

Date: 1972
Description: Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company.
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Steelworkers Strike

Date: 1980
Description: Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco.
Poster

"Viva la Huelga!"

Date: 03 10 1971
Description: Poster promoting a demonstration in support of farm workers. Widespread strikes and demonstrations called for agricultural workers' rights. The poster adve...
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Union Contract Demands

Date: 08 1949
Description: Four Texas workers with a picket sign that uses their wartime service and sacrifices to negotiate for a union contract.
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Packinghouse Strike

Date: 04 1962
Description: Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org...
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Madison Strikers

Date: 10 1975
Description: Picket line of Madison Local 444 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers union on strike against the Packerland Packing Co.
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Union Worker Supports Civil Rights

Date: 1960
Description: Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W...
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Campbells Soup Strikers

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Description: Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant.
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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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Don't Buy Scab Meat

Date: 11 1955
Description: United Packinghouse Workers of America picketers protest the hiring of temporary scab labor by the Colonial Provisions Company. Although no location or dat...
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Pickets in Uniform

Date: 05 1948
Description: The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We...
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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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Lettuce Strike Picket Line

Date: 01 18 1961
Description: The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike.

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