Reel 34

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...

Scope and Contents a major topic is the US-Mexican International Executive Agreement for the importation of Mexican contract workers (or braceros) into the United States; see especially two lengthy NLFU memoranda on this subject (Jan 8, 10) a draft copy of the Agreement and individual work contract (Jan 3), and two letters from Galarza on why the details of the Agreement had not been made public (March 15,16). The NFLU began an intensive drive to obtain legislation to improve the lot of farm workers during...

Scope and Contents As the union's legislative campaign continued, Mitchell testified before Congress on minimum wages and social security for farm workers and on rural housing (April 14, 20, 26). On the California situation, see two letters from Alexander H. Schullman concerning the Di Giorgio injunction suit (April 1, 28), the minutes of a meeting of the California NFLU Organizing Committee (May 15), and a memorandum from Mitchell to Cong. Leonard Irving on a proposed investigation of farm labor by the House...

Scope and Contents The International Executive Agreement with Mexico was signed on August 1; the papers include a 12-page analysis of the pact by Galarza (Aug. 15) and an exchange between Mitchell and USES Director Robert C. Goodwin on the bracero program (Aug. 22; Sept. 19). On the NFLU legislative program, see especially a letter from Alabama Congressman George Grant on H.R. 5557 (July 15), and a detailed letter from Mitchell to Cong. Helen Gahagan Douglas on the various proposals before Congress concerning...

Scope and Contents The House Education and Labor Committee held hearings on the Di Giorgio strike in Bakersfield, California from November 12 to 14; the papers include an exchange between Mitchell and Alexander Schullman on the hearings (Oct 24,26), the NFLU brief, a nine-page report on the strike, a statement by Schullman, and an anti-union statement by Hank L. Strobel, a Monterey County grower (all filed at Nov. 12). The Di Giorgio Fruit Corporation filed a $2 million libel suit against the NFLU based on the...

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Memorandum, "Proposals for Revising and Bringing Up to Date H.R. 3856"; report on "Farm Labor and Farm Labor Housing"; AF of L statement on "Including Costs of Hired Farm Labor in the Parity Price Index"; pamphlets, leaflets, etc., printed in Spanish to explain the work of the NFLU to Mexican-Americans.

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Folder 1231 -- Petitions on the importation of Mexican Nationals, signed chiefly by NFLU members in Missouri. One sample filmed

Scope and Contents The Sixteenth Annual Convention was held at Fresno, California from January 13 to 15; the papers include the complete Proceedings, and the amended Constitution. There are a number of letters, press releases, and reports from Galarza throughout this period on the problems of 100,000 unemployed farm workers in California; see especially his radio address on this subject (March 28). A majority report of the House Education and Labor Sub-Committee on the Di Giorgio strike issued over the...