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| Description: | Summer Youth project, eating in dining hall Myles Horton on left, Wiley Gillmor second from left. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Huet Freeman of the Southern Mutual Help Association of Louisiana and two of his children after winning three-quarters of a million dollars for farm worker... |
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| Description: | Dance sponsored by the Women's Activities Committee of Local 13 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America union. Although the location is unidentified... |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of American representative Bruce Nolan (seated on the stool) speaks to workers at the White Packing Company which had refused t... |
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| Description: | A booth sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America at a fair in Indiana. During the early 1950s UPWA conducted a major outreach effort in the ... |
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| Description: | Two men stand in front of a booth sponsored by the Congress of Industrial Organizations at a fair. In addition to displays on farmer-labor solidarity and v... |
| Date: | 11 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking employees, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, of the Kind & Knox Company, enjoy a break from their picket line responsibil... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
| Date: | 08 1965 |
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| Description: | The bargaining team for a newly-recognized United Packinghouse Workers local at the Agar Packing Company talk over strategy for their first contract talks ... |
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| Description: | An undated photograph of a convention of District 1 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. A sign in the background bears a picture of President Fr... |
| Date: | 02 06 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the recently elected officers of the Madison Truck Driver Local 442 Union. Front row, left to right: Leslie White, business agent and rec... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker's bunks on a railroad car ferry. The spare room has a calendar, light, radiator, table, locking closet and two bunks. Workers' clothes hand on the w... |
| Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Worker reads union newspaper while sitting on a bunk and smoking a cigar. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries.... |
| Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers' toilet. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the National Maritime Union (N... |
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