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| Date: | 07 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Poster with words "Holidays With Pay!" at the bottom illustrated by sketches of workers punching in to work and of people relaxing on a beach. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Union Label Trades Department poster with samples of shop cards and union buttons from various trades. Created by Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Work... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Advertisement, which originally appeared in "The New Masses," June 26, 1945, and was reproduced in the "Wisconsin State Journal," for the Abraham Lincoln S... |
| Date: | 09 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Labor Co-op committee are shown at a meeting at the new East side co-op grocery store, 3055 East Washington Avenue, which will have ... |
| Date: | 05 06 1948 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Economics Professor James S. Earley, is vice-president of the university teachers union (Local 223 of the AFL American Fed... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso... |
| Date: | 04 26 1975 |
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| Description: | Speakers platform for the Jobs Now Rally called by the AFL-CIO at R.F. Kennedy Stadium. The rally was called to draw attention to the problems caused by th... |
| Date: | 04 26 1975 |
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| Description: | Banner displayed by Milwaukee's Amalgamated Meatcutters locals at the Jobs Now Rally sponsored by the AFL-CIO in R.F. Kennedy Stadium. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
| 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: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "International Union of the United Brewery Workmen of America, Union Made Beer, Ale a... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Certificate submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Hotel and Restaurant Employes International Alliance and Bartenders Internatio... |
| Date: | 06 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Leaders in the Madison metropolitan area met to learn more about the Madison Improvement Corporation, whose purpose is to buy and develop land for the expa... |
| Date: | 12 01 1972 |
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| Description: | The First Distinguished Citizen Award of the National Consumers League was given to Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the American Federation of Labor (AF... |
| Date: | 07 14 1965 |
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| Description: | President Johnson gives a warm handshake to AFL-CIO Social Security Dir. Nelson H. Cruikshank after a White House ceremony in which he signed into law the ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1969 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Nelson Cruickshank. In 1969, he became President of the AFL-CIO National Council of Senior Citizens, which began as a coalition Nelson C... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Nelson Cruikshank, emphasizes a point with his left hand as he talks to someone. Cruikshank worked for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Indus... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Members of the Advisory Council on Social Security, which has just completed a review of the social security program and submitted recommendations for impr... |
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