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Don't Buy Kohler
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The strike against the Kohler Company, which began in 1954, was one of the longest strikes in American history. Many of the strikers' fellow unionists supported their cause by means of boycott efforts such as this display at an unidentified fair booth sent to the office of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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Don't Buy Kohler
Unidentified photograph from the archives of the United Packinghouse Workers of America showing the boycott of Kohler Company products. The strike by the Kohler workers begun in 1954 was one of the...
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.
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...
Campbells Soup Strikers
Members of local 80A of the United Packinghouse Workers union on strike in front of the company's plant.
Libby Strikers
March 1950
Publicity pictures of striking employees of the Libby company, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
Strikers' Message
1959
Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co.
