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Milk Strike

Date: 01 10 1934
Description: Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r...
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Berkshire Strike--Pickets with Tear Gas

Date: 1936
Description: Street intersection with a crowd and police. Tear gas is spreading across the road.
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Berkshire Strike — Pickets and Police on Horses

Date: 1936
Description: Four police officers on horses watch picketers cross a street.
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Cutters Protesting a Lockout

Date: 1933
Description: Cutters from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union picket a Reed Brothers Company lockout.
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International Delivery Truck

Date: 10 29 1933
Description: Front view International delivery truck. "Ecco Food Products" "Marshfield Grocer Co. Inc. Wholesalers Marshfield Wisconsin." Taken next to Dane County Cou...
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Milk Strike at Stanley

Date: 1932
Description: Crowd gathered for the milk strike at Stanley.
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Man Next to Green Valley Dairy Sign

Date: 1937
Description: A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike.
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Police Near Cars at Textile Workers Strike

Date: 1937
Description: Police standing near their cars near a textile workers strike. The spare tire in the foreground reads, "Drive Safely".
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Striking Case Workers

Date: 03 13 1934
Description: Case company employees locked out of the Engineering Building.
Poster

Kohler Strike Poster

Date: 1934
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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National Guardsmen During Milk Strike

Date: 05 18 1933
Description: National Guardsmen, who were sworn in as deputies, approach milk strikers through what appears to be a cloud of smoke.
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Kohler Strikers

Date: 07 26 1936
Description: Kohler strikers marching along a sidewalk. Handwritten on the photograph: "Kohler Strikers '2 years after' Memorial Picket Line, July 26th, 1936."
Document

Western Union Telegram to W. Green

Date: 07 12 1934
Description: Telegram received July 13 reads: "WM Green, President of American Federation of Labor = A F OF L BLDG WASHDC = Answer of Kohler Company to latest demands o...
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Western Union Telegram to W. Green

Date: 07 28 1934
Description: Telegram received July 28 reads: "WM Green = A F L BLD = Two dead, 39 shot in Kohler strike by four to five hundred deputies, troops coming, agreed to by u...

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