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Packinghouse Picnic
1953
Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic.
Union Contract Signing
S. Dillon Foss and L. McDonald of the United Packinghouse Workers of America signing a contract with the Nichols-Foss Packaging Company.
Meatpackers Dance
Dance sponsored by the Women's Activities Committee of Local 13 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America union. Although the location is unidentified, Local 13 was based in Oklahoma City.
Labor Institute
The summer labor institute sponsored by the United Packinghouse Workers of America. The delegates are probably all representatives of District 3. Russell Lasley, who would become a vice-president o...
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.
Ralph Helstein
Waist-up studio portrait of Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
