April, 1948, 1948

Black workers at the Edgar F. Hurff Co. in New Jersey loyal to FTA-CIO staged a wildcat strike during April demanding that the company sever its agreement with the AFL Meat Cutters Union. Since the NFLU placed its own workers at the Hurff Co. through the Meat Cutters, the union became directly involved in the dispute. See the detailed reports of F.R. Betton, who was sent to New Jersey to help quash the strike. The NFLU's own strike at the Di Giorgio Corp. continued and may be followed through the strike bulletins (3, 18). There is some correspondence with the Hollywood AFL Film Council about a film produced by the Council on the Di Giorgio strike (15, 22). In April and continuing until October, there is a sizable volume of correspondence to and from I. Lee Parker, NFLU Labor Placement Director, about seasonal jobs outside the South. Finally, in the undated section at the end of the month, there is a lengthy "Organizational Repot on California Farm Labor" by Hank Hasiwar