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CIO Kitchen Duty

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Description: CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping.
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Ike Church at a Bar-B-Que

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Description: Ike Church at a CIO bar-b-que, cutting a pork shank.
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Farmers Union Ladies Quilting

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Description: Farmers Union ladies quilting. A sign in the background reads, "Mt. Pelia". In Weakley County.
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Strike Kitchen

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Description: Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C...
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Strikers' Soup Kitchen

Date: 11 16 1955
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...
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Union Christmas Party

Date: 1959
Description: Four members of an unidentified local in United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 (Burette King, Sidney Coleman, Aljay Williams, and Joseph Kuzma)...
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Workers' Unity House Dining Room

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Description: A view of the dining room with chairs around tables with place settings. The tables are arranged in rows, each set with silverware, cups and saucers, and w...
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Workers' Unity House Dining Room

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Description: View down center of the dining room, looking toward the entrance door. The hall leading from the door to the dining room proper has a long carpet running i...
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Forest Park Hotel Dining Room

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Description: Interior of a dining room at Forest Park Hotel, purchased by the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union in the early 1900's. Women stand among tables ...
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Buy Union Made Plumbing Products

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Description: Poster with an illustration of two women cleaning a bathroom, with a caption that reads: "You Can Rub and Scrub And Scrub and Rub — But You Can't Get Clean...

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