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| Description: | Strike of Chattanooga Packinghouse Workers. A number of workers, one holding a picket sign, are sitting on a railroad track. |
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| Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
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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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| Description: | Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dal... |
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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." |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely". |
| Date: | 03 13 1934 |
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| Description: | Case company employees locked out of the Engineering Building. |
| Date: | 10 1981 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) on strike against the Kellwood Company. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Distribution of picket signs to striking members of the United Steelworkers of America Local 8888. The local was on strike against Tenneco. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Poster urging the boycott of Kohler Company plumbing products, printed by striking Federal Labor Union No. 18545 in late 1934. Because the Company refused... |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster for the Wisconsin State Employees Union (WSEU), Local 171 and Local 2412, announcing "People vs State on Strike". Illustration depicts a ... |
| Date: | 02 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the boycott of non-union lettuce at Gordon Commons on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Features a caricatured professor pointi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Women workers on strike against the Holly Farms Poultry Company, posed outside for a "solidarity" picture. Dorothy Johnson, wearing the third picket sign f... |
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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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| 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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