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| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 in New Orleans on strike against the Colonial Sugar Company. They graphically symbolize the UPWA's d... |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t... |
| Date: | 09 09 1956 |
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| Description: | Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
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| Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
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| Description: | Striking packinghouse workers on a picket line at an unidentified locality. Sign on side of building reads, "W & W Pickle Co." |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant. |
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| Description: | Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing C... |
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| Description: | A booth at an Alabama fair (probably at Florence) sought support for the striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 680 who worked for the R.L. ... |
| Date: | 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ... |
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| Description: | Frank Glovan (wearing a watch on his wrist) president of Teamster Local 407 of Cleveland, listens intently during a special strike meeting called by member... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Outside a Chicago A&P grocery store, striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America urge shoppers to boycott products of the Cudahy company... |
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| Description: | Four members of United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 309 (which was part of District 9) on strike against the W.W. Pickle Company. The picket sign carri... |
| 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. |
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