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Railyard Worker on Tractor outside Miller Brewing Co.

Date: 12 26 1935
Description: Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke...
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Swift Workers on Strike

Date: 09 1959
Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul.
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Swift Company Picketers

Date: 09 09 1956
Description: Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago.
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International L-180 Truck at Kraft Plant

Date: 1950
Description: A driver parks an International L-180 truck and Trailmobile trailer owned by the Kraft Foods Company along the side of a road in front of the company's pla...
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Women on Strike

Date: 08 1957
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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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing.
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Hartford Canning Company

Date: 1969
Description: Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfa...
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Migrant Barracks

Date: 1969
Description: Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke...
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Widmer Cheese Factory Interview

Date: 10 1990
Description: "Mike Jacobs of Milwaukee Journal TV4 interviews Ralph Widmer."
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Klindt-Geiger Canning Company

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Klindt-Geiger Canning Company. A group of male and female employees are posing outdoors on the loading dock along the railroad tracks.
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Two Truck Drivers Sitting in Trucks

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: Two men are sitting in the driver's seats of two trucks parked at an angle. The signs painted on the truck read: "T.M. Sinclair & Co., Ltd., Beef and Pork ...

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