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Hosiery Workers

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Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
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Hosiery Workers Skit at Highlander

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Description: Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School.
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Textile Workers Strike

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Description: Textile workers strike in Alabama. Signs in back read, "This Company Is Unfair To The Laboring Class + It Is Your Fight As Well As Ours. Don't Scab. Dal...
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First Textile Workers Organizing Convention

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Description: First textile workers organizing convention. Cole Dandenburg with his wife on left. Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton on right.
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Plea for Public Power

Date: 06 26 1954
Description: A man stands at a podium and reads from a sheet of paper. Several men are seated at tables and desks, and are looking at him. Caption reads: "PLEA FOR PUBL...
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Hosiery Union Men's Choral Group

Date: 01 1944
Description: A group of men encircle a lightpost. A caption identifies them as "Hosiery Union housing project men's choral group."
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Delegates Registering at ICFTU Conference

Date: 01 1951
Description: Several men are seated at a table, some of them filling out forms. Others people are in the background. Caption reads: "U.S. delegates registering at ICFTU...

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