March and April, 1952, 1952

The Schenley Ranch at Delano, California laid off 100 workers, all NFLU members, and the union, claiming it was a lock-out, asked various AF of L Central Labor Councils to put Schenley products on the "unfair" list. The Schenley dispute may best be followed through the correspondence to and from Bill Becker, the NFLU organizer at Delano. There are three union press releases on the dispute (March 20, 25, 29). The papers include two detailed press releases, one from the Department of Labor and one from the union, on a meeting of the USES Federal Advisory Council which recommended that the Department conduct on-the-spot hearings on the availability of domestic labor before permitting the certification of foreign contract nationals (April 3,4)