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| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul. |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 02 1949 |
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| Description: | An unidentified striking member of the United Packinghouse Workers of America at the Jones-Chambliss company. This photograph appeared in the Packinghouse ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View from across street of various representations of the "Don't Buy Cudahy" boycott campaign outside the Packinghouse Workers headquarters: cartops, women... |
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| Description: | Picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) Local 11 in front of the plant of the Wilson meatpacking company. Although unidentified except... |
| Date: | 01 30 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of striking International Harvester factory workers holding signs and an American flag as they stand near the company's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 04 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Albert Johnson, Walter Kazlausks, John Barkauskas, and Ray Shelton stand outside International Harvester's McCormick Works while passing out handbills on t... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Allis-Chalmers factory gate during strike. Railroad tracks are in the foreground and a large group of police officers stand inside of and coming out of the... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Police pushing a group of strikers in front of the factory gate at the Allis-Chalmers strike. On the far right is a man holding a press camera. |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. |
| 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: | 07 26 1936 |
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| Description: | Kohler strikers marching along a sidewalk. Handwritten on the photograph: "Kohler Strikers '2 years after' Memorial Picket Line, July 26th, 1936." |
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| Description: | Illustration of the rolling mills, with text below that reads: "On the morning of May 4th, 3,000 strikers marched on the rolling mills of Bay View. Governo... |
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