September and October, 1950, 1950

The union called a strike of 3,500 tomato pickers at Tracy, California during September; the progress of the strike may be followed in the letters and telegrams from Ernesto Galarza. An NFLU strike which involved 20,000 California cotton pickers took place in October, but the only information on it appears in a press release announcing the settlement of the strike (Oct 30). Other items of special interest include: an NFLU Farm Labor Supply Agreement (Sept 7); a letter from Secretary of State Dean Acheson to William Green on the farm labor agreement with Mexico (Sept 18); and a memorandum from Mitchell to USES on "The Refusal of Employers to Accept American Agricultural Workers for Employment" (Sept. 27)