January and February, 1952, 1952

The main topic in the papers for these months is the hearings held by Senator Hubert H. Humphrey's Sub-Committee on Labor and Labor-Management Relations on legislation to implement the recommendations of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor. Materials of the President's Commission on Migratory Labor. Materials on this subject include information on the NFLU preparations for the hearings (Jan. 8 to 13), and statements by Louisiana strawberry farmer Lester Felder, California migrant workers Juanita Garcia and Hughe C. Williams, NFLU Vice-President F. R. Betton, Rev. Arthur C. Churchill, and organizer George Stith (Feb. 14). There is a letter from organizer Bill Becker on the latest developments in the dispute with the Schenley Co. (Jan 2), and a union press release on a wildcat strike by Schenley grape pickers at Delano, California (Jan. 10). The papers include a report by Galarza on "The Present Situation in the Imperial Valley" (Feb. 1), and a number of detailed letters from Hank Hasiwar, who had moved to Louisiana to organize strawberry farmers and began his stay with a highly successful two-day strike (Jan. 7; Feb 22, 25)