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Three Men Posing Around a Stump

Date: 1935
Description: Three men, likely United States Resettlement Administration workers, pose around a stump.
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Representation Election

Date: 09 1962
Description: Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgam...
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Ralph Helstein

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Description: Waist-up studio portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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Ralph Helstein

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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John L. Lewis

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Description: John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking.
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UPWA-AMCBW Merger

Date: 1968
Description: Patrick Gorman (right) of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers Union, and next to him, Ralph Helstein of the United Packinghouse Workers of Amer...
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Striker Arrested, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 12 07 1946
Description: During a march in support of the striking Local 75 of the United Automobile Workers, the police arrest one participant.
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Atlanta Stewards Training

Date: 1947
Description: A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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United Public Workers Parade/Demonstration

Date: 07 13 1946
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 ...
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Workers on Strike

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Description: Striking workers march with signs near a railroad crossing.
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Striking Workers

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Description: Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing.
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John L. Lewis

Date: 11 28 1935
Description: John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, speaking.
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UFCW Strike

Date: 10 1981
Description: Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253.
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Cesar Chavez Speaking

Date: 1975
Description: Cesar Chavez speaking while standing in front of a United Farm Workers banner commemorating the unionization of workers at a flower nursery on October 22, ...
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Picketers, Local 18 United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers

Date: 1946
Description: Striking workers from the local 18 of United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers, C.I.O. picketing on a wide downtown sidewalk. The men are walking in a circle h...
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Workers Assemble Gun Carts at McCormick Works

Date: 05 06 1918
Description: Factory workers assembling artillery or "machine gun" carts for the United States military during World War I at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Workers on Strike

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Description: Workers on strike march with signs near a railroad crossing.
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Support the Sugar Workers

Date: 05 1948
Description: On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking...
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Don't Buy Rath

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th...
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Women on Strike

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Description: Two female workers on strike pose together, smiling. Other striking workers, both men and women, are visible behind them.

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