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| Date: | 02 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Union members of Local 317 in Milwaukee strike outside the Electric Co.'s N. Edison Street plant. It was a very cold night. |
| Date: | 11 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Lone picketer from Painters' Local 781 protests against workers not receiving union wages, hours, and benefits. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Automobile Workers Union, Local 180 posed outside the tractor works in Racine with a banner indicating their demands. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View from across road of picket line of striking employees of the Neuhoff Company who were members of the Amalgamated Meat Packers and Butcher workmen unio... |
| Date: | 01 18 1961 |
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| Description: | The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | During a long strike by United Packinghouse Workers Local 156, the Teamsters union attempted to lure the strikers into their union. To combat that effort, ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a metal doorway in the East Village with multiple handmade posters and graffiti proclaiming a strike. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Farm worker Conrado Lopez, on strike against Libby, McNeill & Libby, displays his "Huelga! — NFWA" union button with its trademark black eagle symbol in a ... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Three men pose together on a picket line at the Case plant. The man in the center holds a sign reading: "Case Local demands justice." The Case eagle on a g... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout. Eighty workers of His... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers meeting in Bancroft after a strike. There are four men wearing hats standing in front of a women's outhouse. Strikes in Wisconsin were... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | The man standing in a suit and dark tie with glasses to the left is Charles Heymanns, international organizer for AFL-CIO. Seated to his right in a light s... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Standing on the hood of the car in a striped short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses is Salvador Sanchez, an organizer for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Wi... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers gathering at a cucumber receiving station after striking. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos (United Workers),as an indepe... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A crowd of migrant workers listening to speakers at an Obreros Unidos (United Workers) rally in front of the Wautoma Courthouse. The rally's purpose is to ... |
| Date: | 07 03 1964 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Meat Cutters Union Local 444 employed at Neesvig's Packing Co. picketing in front of the Park Motor Inn, a customer of the meat process... |
| Date: | 07 17 1964 |
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| Description: | Teamster Union picket marching at Reynolds Transfer and Storage Company, 725 E. Mifflin Street. |
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