United Farm Workers of America, 1983-1988

File — Box: 22, Folder: 4

Scope and Contents

Letter to Mazur from United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez asking that he order and distribute copies of video, “The Wrath of Grapes,” to ILGWU affiliates, June 28, 1988; letter to Mazur from Chavez inviting him to be a sponsor of event honoring California Federation of Labor president Jack Henning and 25th anniversary of union, March 4, 1987; letter from Chavez thanking ILGWU for financial contribution, with attached ad tearsheet for grape boycott, March 27, 1987; memo from Mazur to all NYC managers urging support of grape boycott, organizing picket lines at supermarkets, November 20, 1986; letter to Mazur from Chavez thanking him for helping launch boycott of A&P, Food Emporium, and Shopwell supermarkets, noting media coverage of picket line, November 24, 1986; letter to Mazur from Irv Hershenbaum, national representative of UFW, inviting him to meeting with Rep. Charles Schumer to try to dissuade him of his support for “guest worker” program, part of the Simpson-Mazzoli Immigration bill, with attached newspaper clippings, February 10, 1986; biographical sketch of Chavez; press release, “Cesar Chavez Blasts Deukmejian in Address to Massachusetts Lawmakers, Meetings with Gov. Dukakis, Mayor Flynn; Hammers at California Governor in Harvard Law School Speech Tonight,” February 28, 1985, with attached excerpts from speech, prition to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, press clippings, with cover note, “The Case against Deukmejian for Shutting Down Enforcement of Farm Labor Law”; press release, “Cesar Chavez Organizes to Make Grape Boycott of ’60s & ’70s Work in 1980s,” June 1985; copy of United Farm Workers Food and Justice, April/May 1985; survey results re favorable perceptions of farm workers toward union, and press release from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, January 12, 1985; newspaper clippings, 1983-85, with cover note, “What Scientific Surveys Say about Support for the UFW among Farm Workers and the Public”

Dates

1983-1988

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.