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Swift Workers on Strike
September 1959
Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul.
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...
Campbells Soup Strikers
Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant.
Labor Action at White Provisions
Two representatives of the Georgia CIO, C.H. Gillman and Loren Nelleo, visiting with strikers at the Swift company's White Provisions plant. The strikers were members of United Packinghouse Workers...
Swift Strikers
1959
Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being loaded on a train.
Ralph Helstein
Waist-up studio portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
