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Box 2

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

Notes, Documents Relating to Labor, Undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Contains background resarch on agricultural labor in the 1930s as well as correspondence of JR Steelman.

Dates: Undated

Papers Relating to Labor and Unions in the 1930s, 1934-1939

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes US Department of Labor correspondence about agricultural labor disputes in California and other western states. Also includes typewritten notes on the 12th Communist District Secretariat and a memo on the Pacific Coast Secretariat, which "following out the Communist Party plans for more intensive activity on the Pacific Coast [...] will have jurisdiction over all Communistic activity along the coastal states as well as Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho."

Dates: 1934-1939

1933 El Monte Strike, RG 13 170-8083, Undated

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Contains material relating to Mexican farm laborers striking for higher wages against Japanese berry growers.

Dates: Undated