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Children on the Picket Line
May 1, 1948
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 to attach a sign that expressed the union's...
Representation Election
September 1962
Vying to represent some Illinois packinghouse workers are (left to right) representatives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA), the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workers (AMC...
Ralph Helstein
Quarter-length portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Ralph Helstein
Waist-up studio portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Packinghouse Workers Strike
April 1948
As an empty truck is entering the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Kansas City, Kansas, striking United Packinghouse employees threaten the drivers by appearing to throw rocks. Several strikers had ...
Orear and Helstein
Leslie Orear, (left) labor historian and editor of the Packinghouse Worker magazine, with Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
