Reel 32

Scope and Contents The employees at the Hurff Co. voted in an NLRB election to replace the AFL Meat Cutters Union with the FTA-CIO as their bargaining agent; see the reports of WC Banks, the NFLU representative at Hurff (8,17). The Di Giorgio Corp. obtained an injunction against the NFLU's nationwide picketing scheme, terming it a "secondary boycott"; information on the injunction may be found in two long letters from Ernesto Galarza (23, 27) and in an NFLU press release (28). The union issued a statement on...

Scope and Contents For detailed information on the situation in California, the reader should consult the multi-paged, single-spaced letters of Ernesto Galarza, who seems to have gone everywhere and met everyone in the state (5,18,26). Beginning on July 12 and continuing for several months, contributions to the Di Giorgio strike fund poured in from AFL-affiliated unions throughout the country. A good summary of the NFLU seasonal employment program in New Jersey and Pennsylvania appears in a bulletin Mitchell...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consist of correspondence, reports, ledgers, legal documents, leaflets, printed material, photographs, and newspapers published by the union. These document the activities of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union from its origins through its transformations into the National Farm Labor Union in 1946 and the National Agriculture Workers Union in 1952, and through its merger with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1960. The records also contain selected materials from the Socialist Party...