Jess

Jess

@jesskidden.bsky.social

US Brewing Industry History + US Labor History UAW (retired) - formerly IWW / Pulp, Sulphite, & Paper Mill Workers /(almost) Teamsters (failed organizing attempt).

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That bus - it's a Greyhound, isn't it?

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1 week ago
A variety of AFL Federal Labor Union buttons and books, identified by the 5 digit local numbers, including Municipal Transit Workers, School Bus builders (Hicks Body), Gas Workers, Gas Station Operators, Coal Yard Employees, Twin City Ordinance Union, Bridge Tenders, Egg Inspectors, Ohio Match, Gasoline Filling Station Employees, Excavator's Protective Union, News Boys' Union, Special Police Guards, Dyers & Cleaners, Aluminum Workers.
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1966 book HUELGA! about the Delano grape strike by farm workers. 1969 sixth printing. Back cover "The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. The UFWOC was the result of the merger of the AFL-CIO's Agricultural Workers' Organizing Committee (headed by Larry Itliong) and the independent National Farm Workers' Association founded by Dolores Huerta and César Chávez.
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Post Office Sculpture – South River NJ The wood carving 'Construction' was created by Maurice Glickman for the new South River post office. The work was commissioned by the Section of Fine Arts and completed in 1943.

In my old hometown Post Office.
livingnewdeal.org/sites/post-o...
Never minded if there was a line. Sure hope it's still there.

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1949 Working Card - BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS
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September 1967 issue of OFFICIAL NEWS - UNION LABEL AND SERVICE TRADES DEPT. AFL-CIO. Cesar Chavez's union, the Farm Workers' Assoc., had merged with the AFL Agricultural Workers' Org. Comm., to form the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee that same year. Union grapes from Schenley and DiGiorgio are displayed.
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Sheet music for THE UNION MAN MARCH by Frank Shields of Cleveland, Ohio. Copyright 1904
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1 month ago
Title of Powderly's NY Tribune article.
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Signed letter from Knights of Labor's General Master Workman, Terrence V. Powderly agreeing to write an article for the New York Tribune. The half page article would appear in the paper's Feb. 26, 1892 issue.
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Due pins for the Packinghouse Workers CIO

The Independent Union of All Workers is credited by some with the first sitdown strike of the 1930s, at the Hormel plant in Austin MN. Organized by IWW's Frank Ellis, the local eventually joined the CIO's Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee.

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Teamsters Local 544 was one of the Teamster Locals involved in the Minneapolis Truckers Strike of 1934. https://libcom.org/article/how-teamsters-quelled-fascist-thugs https://teamster.org/about/teamster-history/the-minneapolis-strike/ John Belor and Henry Ness were killed by police on "Bloody Sunday". The Independent Union of All Workers, founded by an IWW's Frank Ellis, organized workers at Hormel in Austin MN. https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/blogs/news/on-this-day-in-history-workers-seize-the-hormel-plant
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Union matchbooks
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Lucinda Williams
Sharon Jones
Rosanne Cash
Emmylou Harris
Bonnie Raitt

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Cliff Merritt comic books, with art by noted artist Al Williamson, from the United Transportation Union.
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Membership card in leather holder. International Chemical Workers Union AFL Local 271 in Parlin NJ., which represented workers at the local Hercules Powder Company plant.
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PICKET CAPT. UE-CIO arm band
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1956 issue of the AIW's INDUSTRIAL WORKER quarterly magazine announcing the union's new name after the the AFL-CIO merger, along with other AIW news.
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2 months ago
Teamster milk and dairy drivers' locals' pinback due buttons, with milk bottles or cow.
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2 months ago
Dues book for the AFL Boot and Shoe Workers Union, Local 703 - a Haverhill MA based local.
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2 months ago

Shocking!

Santa is bald 😲

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3 months ago

As I wrote (in a now deleted BeerAdvocate thread about that American Craft Beer article😀), it is the high-tech, AI-era equivalent to "My dog ate my homework".

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4 months ago

Wow... talk about your "Yo-yo dieting" syndrome...😲

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5 months ago
Plastic scales (rulers) from labor unions. The ILGWU, UAW, IAM, Garment Workers and the Australian Services Union.
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5 months ago
Plastic slip cases from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union which held sewing kits or rain hats.
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UE-CIO Local 427 representing Solar employees supporting the strike of Maidenform workers. Photo by a Bayonne NJ company
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Beer glass from the United Brewery Workers of America 1954 Convention in Detroit. "Beer King" glass design, likely manufactured by Federal Glass.
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CIO ("Choice Ingredients Only") Pilsener Beer label, from the Tube City Brewing Co., McKeesport, PA. Likely used during the jurisdictional dispute between the CIO Brewery Workers and AFL Teamsters of the late 1940s in Pennslyvania. Note UBW label under the "I" . inset bottom right - UBW label at the time
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1958 Dues pinback button Coopers International Union
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Teamster Milkman ad - Be Sure a Brother Unionist Delivers Your Milk
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Pre-Prohibition era playing card of the International Union of United Brewery Workmen. Union Made Beer, Ale, Porter, Soft Drinks and Mineral Water
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