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Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall

Date: 09 23 1946
Description: Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a...
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UAW-CIO Local 75 Election

Date: 12 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union...
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Harnischfeger Food Drive

Date: 03 1946
Description: Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo...
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Henry Wallace for President Demonstration

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ...
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Children and Adults Participating in Milwaukee Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 03 1945
Description: The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa...
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Packinghouse Workers Picket Line

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Members of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America and their families walking the picket line.

"Picket Duty - Everyone's Job" Even the youngste...

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Dairy Cooperative Supports Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen.

"Several dairies have volunteered to...

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Stocking the Strike Kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Workers stocking the strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Fred Koratko, Corneli...
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Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Date: 10 14 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Federation of State, County and Municipal employees outside the Federation Building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. Photograph tak...
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Official British Labor Commission

Date: 03 1918
Description: A large group of men in overcoats and hats posing together with a sign that reads: "Official British Labor Commission, W.A. Appleton — Joshua Butterworth, ...
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McCormick Works Council

Date: 09 09 1927
Description: A group of 23 men from the McCormick Works Council posing for an outdoor photograph.
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McCormick Works Council

Date: 1930
Description: The men of the McCormick Works Council posing in front of the brick wall of a building for a group portrait.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 06 16 1948
Description: Several members of Local 311, Madison Firemen's union, are posed around Dick Lerwick, whom the union is sponsoring in the 1948 Soap Box Derby. Kneeling Ed...
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Pearce Roberts

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Portrait of Pearce Roberts, Executive Secretary of the Madison Building Trades Council and past president of the Madison Federation of Labor.
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National Farmers Organization Demonstration

Date: 04 08 1964
Description: Part of the crowd of National Farmers Organization demonstrators who assembled near the Oscar Mayer and Company plant as a "show of strength" to get higher...
Poster

Join the Boycott! Don't Buy Gallo Wines.*

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Description: Poster features a photograph of people holding signs that read: "NFWA (National Farm Workers Association) Huelga" and include the eagle symbol. Text along ...
Postcard

Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade

Date: 10 24 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade, Wausau, Wisconsin." Elevated view of a parade on a city street with street car tracks, near an u...
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Hosiery Branch 169 Negotiating Committee

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Description: Four women, six men, and one boy pose together. Caption reads: "OFFICIALS AND NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE of Hosiery Branch 169 were instrumental in winning the ...

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