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Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall
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Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street as pickets. Those here are just a few of the men marching at the south side of City Hall, where even elevator service was discontinued.
September 23, 1946
Eisenscher, Edmund, 1909-1995 (photographer)
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Allis Chalmers Picketers
November 1, 1946
Members of the United Automobile Workers on strike at the Allis-Chalmers plant in Milwaukee.
Allis Chalmers Strike Parade
December 7, 1946
Striking Allis Chalmbers workers and CIO supporters on parade in 1946. In later years it was common suggested that the Communist-dominated Milwaukee CIO had contributed to the election of Senator ...
Picketers in Favor of Continued Price Controls
July 19, 1946
Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally.
Picketers, Local 18 United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers
1946
Members of local 18 United Gas, Coke and Chemical of the C.I.O. picketing in a small circle on a wide downtown sidewalk. Two men hold signs and one reads, "Milw. Gas Light Co. UNFAIR to organized l...
Picketers, Local 18 United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers
1946
Striking workers from the local 18 of United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers, C.I.O. picketing on a wide downtown sidewalk. The men are walking in a circle holding signs. One reads "Milw. Gas Light C...
Allis-Chalmers Strikers
October 28, 1946
Striking members of Local 248, United Automobile Workers, discuss strategy outside the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company plant.
