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Sugar Scabs

Date: 08 16 1955
Description: Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri...
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Swift Strikers

Date: 1959
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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UFCW Strike

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Description: Strike of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) Local 227 against a Winn-Dixie grocery store. Identified among the picketers are Rev. Charles...
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Packinghouse Strike

Date: 04 1962
Description: Four members of Milwaukee Local 248 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America on strike against the Monarch company. The UPWA had a long history of org...
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Union Solidarity

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Description: In this uncaptioned photograph from their archives, members of the United Packinghouse Workers union are seen standing on two sound trucks speaking to the ...
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Saving Rent Control

Date: 09 04 1949
Description: Emma Milton (left) of Omaha, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Union local 60, is seen here circulating a petition to save the rent control institute...
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UPWA Officers

Date: 02 11 1949
Description: Swearing-in ceremony for Local 190 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America in Detroit by field representative George Sinclair: Daniel Penn, president...
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Wartime Labor Agreement

Date: 07 14 1942
Description: Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo...
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Strike Surveillence

Date: 08 1958
Description: Photograph taken by a member of striking UPWA (United Packinghouse Workers of America) Local 680 of a strike against the R.L. Zeigler Company. It shows the...
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UAW Farm Implement Conference

Date: 05 10 1947
Description: Conference room at the United Auto workers (UAW) farm implement conference. Attendees sit at banquet tables and stand along the walls in the crowded room.
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George Baldanzi

Date: 1952
Description: Portrait of George Baldanzi, founding executive vice president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). He was deputy director for Operation Dixie, ...
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Union Leaders in Selma

Date: 03 1965
Description: Ralph Helstein (second from the left), the president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, with other union leaders on the first day of the civil ...
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William Pollock

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-...
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William Pollock

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-...
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William Pollock

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Description: Quarter-lenth portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-1...
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William Pollock

Date: 1937
Description: Portrait of William Pollock, a long-standing union official. Pollock was business agent for United Textile Workers (UTW) Local 25 from 1931-1937, when he b...
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AFL v. CIO

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Description: Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing...
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Installation of Union Officers

Date: 01 31 1948
Description: Installation of officers, Local 1131, United Electrical Workers (The Louis Allis Company), South Side Armory Hall. Left to right: Phil Smith, field org...
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Pickets in Uniform

Date: 05 1948
Description: The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We...
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African American Labor Solidarity

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Description: Emzie Watkins, a delegate from United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 33 and an employee of the Armour Company in Birmingham, at a union convention. ...

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