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| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union hand out leaflets at the International Harvester Co. plant during the Union's convention. A small crowd of peop... |
| Date: | 01 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Pearce Roberts, Executive Secretary of the Madison Building Trades Council and past president of the Madison Federation of Labor. |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Skaar (known as Bill), the president of the Battery Workers' Federal Union at the Ray-O-Vac Company. |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Allis-Chalmers factory gate during strike. Railroad tracks are in the foreground and a large group of police officers stand inside of and coming out of the... |
| Date: | 11 25 1946 |
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| Description: | Police pushing a group of strikers in front of the factory gate at the Allis-Chalmers strike. On the far right is a man holding a press camera. |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'... |
| Date: | 04 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Three men pose together on a picket line at the Case plant. The man in the center holds a sign reading: "Case Local demands justice." The Case eagle on a g... |
| Date: | 01 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Phil Petta receives his 20-year button from Joseph J. Frigerio, right, a Chicago member of the Construction and General Laborers Union, at Local 464's banq... |
| Date: | 10 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Orla V. Coleman, business agent of Madison Iron Workers Local 383. Earlier in his career as a iron worker he participated in many construction ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1959 |
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| Description: | At the completion ceremonies for apprentices moving on to journeymen in the building trades, are (left to right): master of ceremonies O.T. Harvey, Rev. J.... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
| Date: | 09 29 1965 |
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| Description: | Three participants in the ninth biennial Madison Building Trade Apprenticeship Competition ceremony are shown looking at the program for the event, held at... |
| Date: | 12 30 1966 |
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| Description: | Three men are sitting together at a table. The man in the middle appears to be writing on a document, while the man on his right is talking to him. Caption... |
| Date: | 01 1988 |
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| Description: | Poster calling for "a solution to our demands" on behalf of construction workers in El Salvador. The poster warns "or we will not lay any more bricks" and ... |
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| Description: | Yellow poster with black text. In the center is an illustration of a raised fist. At bottom left is the logo for One Union, International Union Painters an... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Two men sit together in conversation. The man on the left is smoking a cigarette, and both men have booklets in front of them for the CIO's 8th Constitutio... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Several people marching together. A man and woman are marching in the front next to each other; the woman is holding a cigarette. A sign reads: "[Danville]... |
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