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United Auto Workers at Highlander

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Description: Groupportrait of members of the United Auto Workers union attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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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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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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UFCW Strike

Date: 10 1981
Description: Striking members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 253.
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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 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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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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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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Digging Car Out of Mud

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: Will Morrow (in a hat) and J.T. Samson, United States Resettlement Administration field workers, using shovels and boards to extract a vehicle from a muddy...
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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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Men and Women on Strike

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Description: Striking men and women workers march together carrying signs.
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Marching Workers on Strike

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Description: A group of striking workers march together carrying signs near a railroad crossing.
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Labor Lock Out

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Description: United Packinghouse Workers of American representative Bruce Nolan (seated on the stool) speaks to workers at the White Packing Company which had refused t...
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Swift Workers on Strike

Date: 09 1959
Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul.
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Campbells Soup Strikers

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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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Cudahy Union Employees

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Description: Informal outdoor group portrait of several Cudahy employees who were members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Union.

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