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| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
| Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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| Description: | A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen. "Several dairies have volunteered to... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting a confrontation between police and protesters at the Haymarket in Chicago. Smoke from an explosion drifts in the backgro... |
| 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: | 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... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A young man in overalls standing next to a Green Valley Dairy sign. Scene from the Lumberton textile workers strike. |
| Date: | 05 21 1948 |
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| Description: | National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 167 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed by the Swift Company in South St. Paul signing up for strike duty. |
| Date: | 01 17 1946 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Swift Company striker being taken from the CIO picket line by police. The striker was reported to have been beaten and arrested. |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) Local 186 listen to talk from union representative Grover Hathaway, who is not in the pic... |
| Date: | 03 25 1941 |
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| Description: | Police officer and marchers from a Congress of Industrial Organizations (also known as the Committee of Industrial Organization) union clash outside Intern... |
| Date: | 01 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Lithographers' Local #7 strike vote meeting held in a large auditorium. A man is standing speaking and every seat in the house is filled. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout. Eighty workers of His... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers meeting in Bancroft after a strike. There are four men wearing hats standing in front of a women's outhouse. Strikes in Wisconsin were... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | The man standing in a suit and dark tie with glasses to the left is Charles Heymanns, international organizer for AFL-CIO. Seated to his right in a light s... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Standing on the hood of the car in a striped short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses is Salvador Sanchez, an organizer for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Wi... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers gathering at a cucumber receiving station after striking. Strikes in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos (United Workers),as an indepe... |
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