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United Mine Workers Journal

Date: 08 03 1916
Description: United Mine Workers Journal of Indianapolis, Indiana, with illustration of a skeleton with a scythe. The caption reads: "After two years--who wants me?"
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Labor Works For Highway Safety

Date: 1969
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...
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Haymarket Square Rally

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Photograph of an artistic rendering of a rally held at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886, before the explosion of the bomb. Haymarket Square is at the Inters...
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Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and William Green

Date: 1943
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., and William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, debate a point during a Mutual Broadcasting System ra...
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John L. Lewis

Date: 11 28 1935
Description: John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking.
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John L. Lewis

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Description: John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking.
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John L. Lewis

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Description: John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Works of America, speaking at a hearing.
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Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
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Informational Picket

Date: 1950
Description: Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co....
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Frank McCallister with Unionization Graph

Date: 1947
Description: CIO Session at Highlander Folk School featuring Frank McCallister, standing. Graph shows number of Americans employed vs. number of American workers union...
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Mine, Mill, and Smelters Union

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Description: Mine, Mill & Smelters Union reading by a lake at Highlander Folk School. Will Thomas, second on the right, smoking a pipe.
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CIO Students Reading

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Description: Two CIO students reading books outside at Highlander Folk School. One book is titled, "The CIO and World Affairs".
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Man Reading Newspaper

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Description: A man, presumably a farmer, reading "The Tennessee Union Farmer" newspaper.
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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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Alabama Farmers Union Meeting

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Description: A man with a short tie standing up during an Alabama Farmers Union Meeting. An image in the background reads, "Peace, Abundance, Security, and Democracy f...
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Willie Rudd

Date: 1991
Description: Willie Rudd, president of the United Furniture Workers Local 282 as well as the national union, at a SOC (Southern Organizing Committee) labor conference i...
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Milwaukee Labor Leader

Date: 05 1965
Description: Matthew A Pinter, business agent of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 of Milwaukee, speaks from the floor during a district union convention...
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Award to Chavez

Date: 1969
Description: Cesar Chavez (center) head of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee, receives a Ghandi commemorative medal from Theodore Mazarello (left) of the Gandhi Cen...
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Union Solidarity

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Description: In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ...
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Identifying Union Activists

Date: 1948
Description: James Newman, public relations director of the Rath packing company, takes photographs of striking workers from a window of the company's factory.

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