Trade Union Collection

Crowd outside the closed East India Dock Gates, Poplar, London, 1897. Men wait, locked out of the East India Docks, probably during a strike in which the dock workers demanded fair pay

A. J. Cook led the Miners and the miners led the strike, c1926, (1938). Arthur James Cook (1883-1931), known as A. J. Cook, was a British trade union leader who was General Secretary of the Miners

Copenhagen Fields, Islington, London, 1834. Artist: W Summers
Copenhagen Fields, Islington, London, 1834; a view of the meeting of the Metropolitan Trades Unions in Copenhagen Fields

Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Otto Hue, between c1915 and c1920.

Healy, Fitzgerald, Mahon, Frayne, 1916. Creator: Bain News Service
Healy, Fitzgerald, Mahon, Frayne, 1916. Shows Timothy Healy, William B. Fitzgerald, William D. Mahon, Hugh Frayne (general organizer in New York for the American Federation of Labor)

Agricultural Labourers Union at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-Street...1876. Creator: Unknown
Agricultural Labourers Union at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-Street, [London]: Delegates signing Petition, 1876. About a thousand persons from different parts of the country were present

La Nouvelle Europe; la constituante Allemande; Les femmes dans l'Assemblee... 1919. Creator: Unknown
La Nouvelle Europe; la constituante Allemande; Les femmes dans l'Assemblee: trios representantes du parti socialiste majoritaire et une elue du parti national

William Big Bill Haywood, Labor Agitator, Leaving Shoreham Hotel, 1916. Creator: Harris & Ewing
William Big Bill Haywood, Labor Agitator, Leaving Shoreham Hotel, 1916. American labour organiser and activist: founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

The World We Live In, 1937. Creator: Unknown
The World We Live In, 1937. Announcement - Theatre Party sponsored by the Millinery Workers Union to see "The World We Live In" by Josef and Karel Capek - Mayan Theatre...Please See

Portrait of James Petrillo in his office, New York, N.Y. ca. Feb. 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of James Petrillo in his office, New York, N.Y. ca. Feb. 1947

Portrait of James Petrillo in his office, New York, N.Y. ca. Feb. 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of James Petrillo in his office, New York, N.Y. ca. Feb. 1947

Portrait of James Petrillo in his office, New York, N.Y. ca. Feb. 1947. Creator: William Paul Gottlieb
Portrait of James Petrillo in his office, New York, N.Y. ca. Feb. 1947

Samuel Gompers, between 1913 and 1917. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Samuel Gompers, between 1913 and 1917
Samuel Gompers, between 1913 and 1917. British-born American cigar maker, businessman and union leader

Eugene V. Debs, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Eugene V. Debs, 1912. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Eugene V. Debs, 1912. [American socialist, political activist and trade unionist Gene Debs, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

On to Washington; A. Philip Randolph, Candidate for Assembly from the 19th Assembly... 1918-1922. Creator: Unknown
On to Washington; A. Philip Randolph, Candidate for Assembly from the 19th Assembly Distric, 1918-1922

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO)

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in

[Untitled photo]: New York City street scene, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
[Untitled photo]: New York City street scene. Trade union members picketing Macy's

Weighers and warehousemens union headquarters, Oakland, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Weighers and warehousemens union headquarters. Oakland, California. ['Berkeley Unfair to Organized Labor']

The day after election, Oakland, California, November 12, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The day after election. Oakland, California. November 12, 1936. [Weighers and warehousemens union headquarters]

JRButler, President of the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
J.R. Butler, President of the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union. Memphis, Tennessee

HL Mitchell, Secretary of Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Memphis, Tennessee, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
H.L. Mitchell, Secretary of Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Union headquarters, Memphis, Tennessee

Headquarters of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Memphis, Tennessee, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Under the "for rent" sign, through the door, one flight up, is the headquarters of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. Memphis, Tennessee

At Hill House, Mississippi - He wears the union button, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
At Hill House, Mississippi. He wears the union button

President of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
President of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union at Hill House, Mississippi

Evicted Arkansas sharecropper, now building his new home at Hill House, Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Evicted Arkansas sharecropper. One of the more active of the union members (Southern Tenant Farmers Union). Now building his new home at Hill House, Mississippi

In front of city hall, San Francisco, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
In front of city hall, San Francisco, California. The Worker's Alliance, Works Progress Administration (WPA) organize simultaneous demonstrations in the large cities of the nation cut in

From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California, Kern County, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
From Oklahoma farm (April 1938) to strike leader in California. Cotton strike (Nov. 1938). He displays his union membership book. "Vote No on No

Street meeting at night...outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO)

Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California, 1938. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Street meeting at night in Mexican town outside of Shafter, California. Organizer for United Cannery Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America (Congress of Industrial Organizations-CIO)

Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Trades demonstration at Florence against the temporal power of the Pope, 1862. Engraving from a sketch by M. Mariani. [View of]...a demonstration in answer to the last declaration of Cardinal

Marchers from Shoreditch, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933) Creator: Unknown
Marchers from Shoreditch, Means Test protests, Hyde Park, London, 1932, (1933). The Shoreditch contingent arrives at Hyde Park

Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Kern County, California, 1939
Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar

Untitled negative showing a portrait of A. Philip Randolph, labor leader, Washington, D. C, 1942. Creator: Gordon Parks
[Untitled negative showing a portrait of A. Philip Randolph, labor leader, Washington, D.C. ]

Four firms being picketed, 42nd Street, New York City, New York, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
New York City. Four firms on 42nd Street in block east of Fifth Avenue were being picketed in this manner on this afternoon

Firms being picketed, 42nd Street, New York City, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
New York City. Four firms on 42nd Street in block east of Fifth Avenue were being picketed in this manner on this afternoon

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Wade (1800-1878), Before 1878. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin Wade (1800-1878), Before 1878

Poster from Womens March on Washington reading "Juntos se puede", 2017
The election of the Republican Donald Trump as president of the United States of America prompted worldwide protests in January 2017

Sidney Hillman, 1937. Creator: Carlos Baca-Flor
Sidney Hillman, 1937

C. W. A. Worker at Key Bridge, n. d. Creator: Edgar Nye
C.W.A. Worker at Key Bridge, early 20th century

Meeting of pitmen, on Pittington Hill, 1844. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of pitmen, on Pittington Hill, 1844. Procession of miners in County Durham. An unfortunate difference at present exists between the pitmen and the coal owners

Pitmen encamped, (in Northumberland and Durham), 1844. Creator: Unknown
Pitmen encamped, (in Northumberland and Durham), 1844. The unfortunate dispute between the coal-owners and pitmen of the north of England still continues

Margaret Bondfield, 1929, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Margaret Bondfield, 1929, (1935). Portrait of Margaret Grace Bondfield (1873-1953), British Labour politician, trade unionist and womens rights activist

The Railway Strike - Meeting on Tower Hill, 1919, 1920. Artist: CRW Nevinson
The Railway Strike - Meeting on Tower Hill, 1919, 1920. From Londoners Then and Now As Pictured By Their Contemporaries, edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio Ltd. London, 1920]

Keir Hardie addressing the first womens suffrage demonstration, London, 19 May 1906
Keir Hardie addressing the first womens suffrage demonstration, Trafalgar Square, London, 19 May 1906. Hardie (1856-1915) was a Scottish trade unionist

John L Lewis, American trade unionist, 1939. John Llewellyn Lewis (1880-1969), was an American leader of organised labour who served as President of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to

Keir Hardie speaking at a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, 2nd August, 1914. Artist
Keir Hardie speaking at a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, London, 2 August, 1914. James Keir Hardie (1856-1915) was a Scottish trade unionist and politician

Eugene Victor Debs, American Union leader, addressing a crowd, 20th century. Artist
Eugene Victor Debs, American Union leader, addressing a crowd, 20th century. Debs (1855-1926) was instrumental in the founding of one of the first trade unions in the United States

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