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| Date: | 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Wilson Sporting Goods Company in suburban Chicago are Bob Pickles and Ed Cronk. The men were representing the United Packinghouse Workers ... |
| 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: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of men walking into the Chicago headquarters of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Local 594, all employees of the Wilson Packin... |
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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: | 02 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Striking workers near a railroad crossing march in a circle holding handmade signs. |
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| Description: | View across lot of a crowd of workers on strike. Some hold signs, while one holds an American flag. |
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| Description: | View across lot of a crowd of workers on strike gathered near a building. Some of them carry signs and a flag. |
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| Description: | Striking men and women workers march together carrying signs. |
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| Description: | Five striking female workers in headscarves pose together. Men are visible behind them, one of whom carries an American flag. |
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| Description: | Two female workers on strike pose together, smiling. Other striking workers, both men and women, are visible behind them. |
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| Description: | View from across street of a crowd of workers on strike, gathered in a parking lot near a railroad crossing. |
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| Description: | Striking workers march with signs near a railroad crossing. |
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| Description: | Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing. |
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| Description: | A worker on strike marches past four women. He is carrying a sign. |
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| Description: | A group of striking workers march together carrying signs near a railroad crossing. |
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