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| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Union members of Local 317 in Milwaukee strike outside the Electric Co.'s N. Edison Street plant. It was a very cold night. |
| Date: | 05 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact... |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | An unidentified employee of the Evans Fur Company, represented by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers Union. |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | James Newman, public relations director of the Rath packing company, takes photographs of striking workers from a window of the company's factory. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America members at the Armour plant in Atlanta check membership cards in an effort to bring 100 percent membership into loca... |
| Date: | 04 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th... |
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| Description: | Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing... |
| 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: | 09 1945 |
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| Description: | View from road of picket line of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 284 at the Globe company plant. |
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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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting fair hiring practices. Produced by the National CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination, 718 Jackson Place, Washington 6, D.C. Prepared by... |
| Date: | 01 30 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of striking International Harvester factory workers holding signs and an American flag as they stand near the company's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 04 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Albert Johnson, Walter Kazlausks, John Barkauskas, and Ray Shelton stand outside International Harvester's McCormick Works while passing out handbills on t... |
| Date: | 03 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Police officer and marchers from a Congress of Industrial Organizations (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) union clash outside Intern... |
| Date: | 08 21 1952 |
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| Description: | A man, probably Walter Howaniec, stands outside the McCormick Works factory while holding two picket signs during a worker strike. |
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| Description: | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) poster with a drawing of a man standing with his sleeves rolled up and his arms crossed. There are industrial scenes ... |
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