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| Date: | 05 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact... |
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| Description: | Patrick Gorman, then the secretary treasurer of the international union, with other leaders at the 19th national convention. |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., with two leaders of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Russell Lasley, and President Ralph Helstein. Probably at a UPWA c... |
| Date: | 11 28 1935 |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking. |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Works of America, speaking at a hearing. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 02 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee. Russell E. Dresser, Meat Cutter Union, Oscar Mayer, Bessie Backlund, Celon Company union, C.B... |
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| Description: | Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them. |
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| Description: | People walking up the steps under a large neon sign in front of a snowy Union Center Inc., CIO building. |
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| Description: | CIO workshop at Highlander Folk School, featuring George Guernsey, extreme right. A group of five men gathered around a record player. |
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| Description: | CIO School at Highlander Folk School, featuring Marion Palfi holding a camera, and Dan Paul, the Southern PAC Director, center. An unidentified woman is on... |
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| Description: | Farmers Union School gathering at Highlander. A.A. Liveright smoking a pipe and holding a camera, left; Paul Bennett, right. |
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| Description: | Three boys, one playing a guitar, one playing a mandolin, and one singing a song from "Favorite Radio Gems," songbook, as part of a Farmers Union Meeting a... |
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| Description: | Five African American men wearing suits and singing into a microphone. There is a small farmers union sign on the back wall. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union workshop at Southern Alabama. Tom Ludwig is third from the right. They are possibly recording a conversation. |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 16 1963 |
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| Description: | President John F. Kennedy meeting with delegates to the Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workers Union in the White House rose garden. The labor leader... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| 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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| Description: | Events leading up to the merger of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and the United Packinghouse Workers unions included this appearance by Patrick Gorman of the... |
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