Our struggle in the south

1969

Neebe, Bill

Film depicting a strike and picketing by meat packing workers at the home of factory owner, Lorenz Neuhoff.  Union organizers discuss the organizing campaign issues at the Clarksville and Salem plants, and their belief that the power of the people will overcome the power of money.  Several workers are interviewed and share about work conditions and low wages.  Three meat brands were targeted for boycott. Directed by Bill Neebe and produced for Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America AFL-CIO.

Birch, Bill; Tate, Ray; Apel, Darwin R.; Tanenbaum, Leo; Orear, Les; Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of North America, AFL-CIO

Artists Representatives Incorporated

Labor unions; Picketing-Law and legislation; Strikes and lockouts; Boycotts; Wages

Labor

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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film reels

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This material was digitized as part of the "Advancing Workers Rights in the American South: Digitizing the Records of the AFL-CIO’s Civil Rights Division" project, supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.

Filename: labor-086920; Catalog Key: 31430059608663