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Local 427 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is a Northeast Ohio labor union representing employees
involved in the sale or processing of food, especially butchers, packing-house workers and fur industry workers. It was known
until 1979 as Meat Cutters District 427 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, when the international
merged with the Retail Clerks International Union to become the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Sam
Pollock served as president, 1953-1973, and was succeeded by Frank Cimino, who later became an officer of the international
body. The collection consists of individual and group portraits of union officials and members and their families. Also includes
views of organizing and strike activities, community activities, and a large group of photographs relating to the Bondi Supermarket
strike, 1956-1957, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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