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Box 4

 Container

Contains 43 Results:

Yakima Valley Strikes, 1933

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 39b
Scope and Contents

Includes legal correspondence and court documents related to violence and kidnappings against farm laborers in Yakima, Washington; news clippings; interview transcripts; and issues of the IWW General Defense Committee Bulletin. Also includes typewritten and handrwritten drafts of a class paper by Daniel dated May 18, 1970 titled "Labor Radicalism in American Agriculture: the IWW in the Yakima Valley."

Dates: 1933

1914-1935 Newspaper Articles and Transcripts related to the Wheatland Hop Riots and Imperial Valley Strikes, Undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 42a
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies of an incomplete court transcript of the 1914 trial of Richard "Blackie" Ford and Herman D. Suhr for the murder of E. T. Manwell during the Wheatland Hop Riots. Also includes an original 1930 transcript of an interview with H. Harvey, one of the Trade Union Unity League (TUUL) organizers of the Imperial Valley strikes of 1930.

Dates: Undated

Cotton Pickers, San Joaquin Valley, U.S. Commissioner of Conciliation Service RG 13 182-763, 1935

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Titles with "RG" followed by alphanumeric codes indicate copies of material from the National Archives, with number codes indicating the record group to which each folder belongs.



Dates: 1935

Remarks by S.P. Frisselle, Chairman Statewide Agricultural Committee before the California State Board of Agriculture, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents

Remarks relate to communist influence on strikes throughout California. Also includes photocopied Proceedings of the 56th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor (1936)

Dates: 1934

1934-1935 Materials re NLB Activism in Salinas Valley, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Titles with "RG" followed by alphanumeric codes indicate copies of material from the National Archives, with number codes indicating the record group to which each folder belongs.



Dates: undated

1934 ACLU Efforts to get federal action in Imperial Valley, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Titles with "RG" followed by alphanumeric codes indicate copies of material from the National Archives, with number codes indicating the record group to which each folder belongs.



Dates: undated

1934 Materials From Justice Dept. Re Federal Investigation in Imperial Valley, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Titles with "RG" followed by alphanumeric codes indicate copies of material from the National Archives, with number codes indicating the record group to which each folder belongs.



Dates: undated

Articles Relating to Agriculture and Labor, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies of articles and book chapters dating 1934-1939, including the proceedings of the Second Consitutional Convention of the CIO (1939).

Dates: undated

Speeches and Articles Against Agricultural Unionism, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Titles with "RG" followed by alphanumeric codes indicate copies of material from the National Archives, with number codes indicating the record group to which each folder belongs.



Dates: 1934