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Box 4

 Container

Contains 43 Results:

ACLU and 1933 Cotton Strikes, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopied letter to Roger Baldwin and essay by A.L. Wirin on the the 1933 cotton strike and criminal syndicalism laws.

Dates: undated

Anti-Filipino Activities in Salinas Valley, 1934, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes accounts of vigilante attack on Filipino labor camp from the Conference for Labor's Civil Rights and the Filipino Labor Union.

Dates: undated

ACLU Correspondence with General Pelham Glassford re: Imperial Valley strikes, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
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

Internal ACLU Correspondence re: Imperial Valley, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 10
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

Press re: Imperial Valley and other California agricultural Strikes, 1933 - 1937

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Includes Northern California Political Prisoners Bulletin and National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners notable members list (which includes Langston Hughes and Edna St. Vincent Millay).

Dates: 1933 - 1937

Miscellaneous correspondences in Imperial Valley, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with ACLU attorneys Wirin and Besig

Dates: 1934

1934 Imperial Valley correspondence, RG 13 170-7205 U.S. Commissioner of Conciliation Service, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of correspondence and news clippings regarding Imperial Valley strikes and violence against workers. Includes appeals to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Frances Perkins from the ACLU and labor groups as well as from the Chamber of Commerce and owners.

Dates: undated

1936 Orange Pickers' Strike, U.S. Commissioner of Conciliation Service RG 13 182-1525, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of letters, telegrams, and news clippings related to the 1936 citrus strike in Orange County. Some telegrams and letters addressed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Frances Perkins.

Dates: undated

Creel correspondence re: 1933 cotton strike and aftermath, 1933

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Materials related to 1933 cotton and lettuce strikes, including some original.

Dates: 1933

Cotton Strike, 1933 U.S. Commissioner of Conciliation Service RG 13 176-635, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies of letters and telegrams to President Roosevelt regarding the cotton pickers strike, clippings, and the Commissioner of Conciliation's final report on the strike.

Dates: undated