Milwaukee Labor Exhibit Preview Envisioning Community Economic security and social dignity could not be won inside the factories alone. CIO unions tried to build larger communities around political, economic and civil rights issues.
Images show workers struggling to implement a vision of a more just and equitable post-war society.
A few members of the Auxiliary of Local 75, UAW, at the Seaman Body Plant work at the CIO office getting campaign literature out. Anti-Franco demonstration, Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, March, 1946. CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans to demand breaking off U.S. diplomatic relations with fascist Spain.