Citizens' Committee to Aid Packing-House Workers
The United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) (later the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers) was a labor union that represented workers in the meatpacking industry.
In 1937, the UPWA was originally chartered as the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee (PWOC) by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). In 1968, the UPWA dissolved into the Amalgamated Meat Cutters.
Committe
As at April 12, 1948, the following were members of the committee:
- Sidney Jones - Chairman
- Hattie Bryan - Co-Chairman
- Thomas Clarke - Secretary
- Oscar Brown - Treasurer
- Louise Patterson - Assistant Treasurer
- Sven Anderson
- Joseph Bidd
- Theodore Coleman
- Charles Davis
- Frank Marshall Davis
- George Dorsey
- Hilliard Ellis
- Si Falk
- Albert George
- Irene Gaines
- Rev. Arthur Gray
- John Gray
- Dr. Stanley Hough
- Dr. Jenkins Hightower
- Margaret Hayes
- Dr. Maurice Hebert
- Vernon Jarrett
- Joseph Jefferson
- Horace Johnson
- Majorie Joyner
- B. F. Jones]
- Ulysses Keys
- Rev. William Latham
- Theophilus Mann
- Jackie Ormes
- Bertha Keith Payne
- Dr. Solomon Pearlman
- Leo Pliner
- Lorraine Piggot
- Rev. Joseph Roberts
- Frankye Singleton
- W. Ellis Stewart
- Edmonia Swanson
- Maudine Sykes
- Leon Tannenbaum
- Rebecca Taylor
- Dr. Charles Thompson
- Yeaman Thompson
- Sue Wilson Turner
- Bishop W. J. Walls
- Rev. A. A. Watts
- Nelson Willis
- Genoa Washington
- Elweard WIlliamson
- Senator C. C. Wimbish
- Zeke Ziner
Finance Committee
As at April 12, 1948, the following were members of the Finance Committee:
The uty of the Finance Committee was to raise funds for the purpose of raising funds to purchase food and other necessities for the workers.
- Marjorie Stewart Joyner
- Chairman Oscar Brown
- Hattie Bryan
- Margaret Hayes
- Leo Pliner
- W. Ellis Stewart
- Senator C. C. Wimbish
The duty of the Publicity Committee was to give publicity to the facts with reference to the strike, the plight of the workers and the work of the citizens Committee.