Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›Packing House Pickets--These pretty pickets were among the 400 who circled meat packing plants in Cambridge and Somerville this morning. Workers from Greater Boston packing houses joined strikers on the picket line. Left to right: Lilian Murphy, Irene Barron, Alice Parker, Rosemary Latanowich and Florence Chickengraustein.
Packing House Pickets--These pretty pickets were among the 400 who circled meat packing plants in Cambridge and Somerville this morning. Workers from Greater Boston packing houses joined strikers on the picket line. Left to right: Lilian Murphy, Irene Barron, Alice Parker, Rosemary Latanowich and Florence Chickengraustein.
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Packing House Pickets--These pretty pickets were among the 400 who circled meat packing plants in Cambridge and Somerville this morning. Workers from Greater Boston packing houses joined strikers on the picket line. Left to right: Lilian Murphy, Irene Barron, Alice Parker, Rosemary Latanowich and Florence Chickengraustein.

Hill, Ernest (Photographer) · [ca. May 1948]

CC0 — Public Domain
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[Information from item housing] Labor: Strikes: Meat Packers: Incl. Mass.

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