June, 1948, 1948

The employees at the Hurff Co. voted in an NLRB election to replace the AFL Meat Cutters Union with the FTA-CIO as their bargaining agent; see the reports of WC Banks, the NFLU representative at Hurff (8,17). The Di Giorgio Corp. obtained an injunction against the NFLU's nationwide picketing scheme, terming it a "secondary boycott"; information on the injunction may be found in two long letters from Ernesto Galarza (23, 27) and in an NFLU press release (28). The union issued a statement on the importation of foreign nationals to depress American farm wages (4), and Mitchell complained to USES Director Robert C. Goodwin on the use of West Indian workers in the Florida sugar cane industry (15). There is a report on the status of the college student recruitment drive (8) and two letters from NSF Secretary Hazel Whitmen on the work of her organization (9,26)