Swift & Company, Sioux CIty Plant 1939 strike collection, 1939-1942.

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Swift & Company, Sioux CIty Plant 1939 strike collection, 1939-1942.

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This collection includes reemployment reports (Jan. 26-June 23, 1939) listing workers with their job classes who had been rehired after being fired during the 1939 strike; correspondence and newspaper clippings related to the case of James Porter (leader of the C.I.O. Swift & Co. strike in 1939) who was convicted of malicious mischief for throwing bricks through the windows of the home of William Kruck in a strike-related incident (September and October, 1939); and two documents naming John Davidchik as the authorized collective bargaining representative for the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee affiliated with the CIO Local 71 (1942).

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Swift & Company. Sioux City Plant.

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Porter, James F.

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Epithet: diplomatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001240.0x000051 ...

Davidchik, John.

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