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| Date: | 09 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a... |
| Date: | 12 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union... |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F... |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day rally with a crowd of Union members on the steps of a large stone building. Banners read "United Labor 51st May Day: 1886-1937" "German-American W... |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking workers from the local 18 of United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers, C.I.O. picketing on a wide downtown sidewalk. The men are walking in a circle h... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of local 18 United Gas, Coke and Chemical of the C.I.O. picketing in a small circle on a wide downtown sidewalk. Two men hold signs and one reads, ... |
| Date: | 08 24 1946 |
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| Description: | Posed group shot of the United Steelworkers of America District 32 Convention Resolutions Committee. The men wear suits and are all sitting or standing aro... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union hand out leaflets at the International Harvester Co. plant during the Union's convention. A small crowd of peop... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Part of a United Public Workers parade/demonstration on a downtown city street. A horse-drawn wagon carries some participants. Parade signs read "No Swivel... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | A United Public Workers parade/demonstration from an adjacent sidewalk. The line of participants including a horse-drawn wagon stretches into the distance.... |
| Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Decorated truck driven by Leonard Greachowiak through downtown in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. The beribboned pickup displays a sign that ... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | View of a metal stairway and a train car wheel and undercarriage. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry w... |
| 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: | 05 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Mayor Vincent Totka of Cudahy and Mayor Charles Plotz of South Milwaukee pose for a photograph after greeting a CIO organized rally in South Milwaukee. A l... |
| 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: | 11 12 1948 |
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| Description: | View from across street of employees of Peters Tools, Local 100, standing on the sidewalk in front of the brick storefront with a number of cases at their ... |
| Date: | 01 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Women casting ballots at the Lithographers' Local #7 Strike vote. The ballot box is on a stage at the front of a large crowded room. |
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