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Description: | Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period, on a street. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | Elevated view of members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 20 on strike against the Wilson Company. They are standing outside their union... |
Date: | 1960 |
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Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
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Description: | During the 1930s the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee PWOC) began a national organizing campaign among packinghouse workers. This undated p... |
Date: | 08 1958 |
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Description: | Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the... |
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: | 01 18 1961 |
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Description: | The farm workers picket line near El Centro during the important Imperial Valley lettuce strike. |
Date: | 1961 |
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Description: | Four of the deputy sheriffs that were part of the growers strike-breaking techniques during the important Imperial Valley Lettuce Strike. |
Date: | 1961 |
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Description: | United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) field representative John Soria watching picket line and police activities during the important Imperial Vall... |
Date: | 1965 |
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Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
Date: | 1971 |
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Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 248 paraded on Wisconsin Avenue to draw attention to the fact that employees of the Packer Packing ... |
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Description: | Elevated view of the back of the house and an outbuilding with numerous windows. A dirt path runs around the outbuilding, with a small planting of flowers ... |
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Description: | View from across street of a crowd of workers on strike, gathered in a parking lot near a railroad crossing. |
Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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Description: | Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne... |
Date: | 11 13 1958 |
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Description: | International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works. |
Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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Description: | May Day parade with a closeup of a "memorial" float for company unions. A man leans on the parked float. The float features a faux grave and the gravestone... |
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: | 07 13 1946 |
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Description: | Close-up of two participants, a man and a boy, in a United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration. Both are looking at the photographer and the boy carries a ... |
Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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Description: | A United Public Workers parade/demonstration from an adjacent sidewalk. The line of participants including a horse-drawn wagon stretches into the distance.... |
Date: | 07 13 1946 |
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Description: | View from sidewalk of horse-drawn wagon on a tree-lined city street in a United Public Workers parade/demonstration. The wagon has a number of boys in it w... |
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