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Herbert March Speaking at Rally

Date: 01 1952
Description: Herbert March speaking at the "Negro and White, Unite and Fight" rally in -8 F degree weather.
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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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Fur Workers Rally

Date: 05 28 1963
Description: Fur workers rally outside the Radley Fur Company.
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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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Union Leaders in Selma

Date: 03 1965
Description: Ralph Helstein (second from the left), the president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with other union leaders on the first day of the civil ...
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Union Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1951
Description: The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli...
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Packinghouse Picnic

Date: 1953
Description: Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic.
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Wartime Labor Agreement

Date: 07 14 1942
Description: Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo...
Poster

CIO Poster

Date: 1941
Description: Poster promoting fair hiring practices. Produced by the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 718 Jackson Place, Washington 6, D.C. Prepared by...

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