Box 4
Contains 43 Results:
1936 Orange Pickers' Strike, U.S. Commissioner of Conciliation Service RG 13 182-1525, undated Request Item
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.
1914-1935 Newspaper Articles and Transcripts related to the Wheatland Hop Riots and Imperial Valley Strikes, Undated Request Item
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.
Yakima Valley Strikes, 1933 Request Item
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."