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Picket Line Compassion
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On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hospitals.
January 16, 1946
Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.)
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Striker Arrested
January 17, 1946
Elevated view of a Swift Company striker being taken from the CIO picket line by police. The striker was reported to have been beaten and arrested.
Campbells Soup Strikers
Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant.
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 ...
Strike Kitchen
Strikers from the United Packinghouse Workers union in Topeka taking a coffee break from their picketing. The strikers were employees of the Hill Packing Company.
Swift Company Picketers
September 9, 1956
Striking members of Amalgamated Meatcutters Local 28 picketing at the Swift and Company plant in Chicago.
Pickets in Uniform
May 1948
The message of United Packinghouse Workers of American picketers gained force when members who were veterans wore their uniforms. One picket sign reads "We fought and won the war; Swift got the pro...
