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Box 4

 Container

Contains 43 Results:

1914-1935 Newspaper Articles and Transcripts related to the Wheatland Hop Riots and Imperial Valley Strikes, Undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 42a
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Undated

Yakima Valley Strikes, 1933

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 39b
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1933

San Francisco Examiner article manuscripts, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Manuscript drafts of letters and articles for the San Francisco Examiner regarding labor organizing and communists in the Imperial Valley, including a piece by Philip S. Bancroft. Also includes issue of Trabajador Agricolo newspaper (Vol. 1 No. 1, December 20, 1933).

Dates: 1934

Reports on strikes and vigilante/police violence in Imperial Valley, 1934

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Contains court documents and chronologies of strikes in Imperial Valley that led to police and vigilante violence against workers.

Dates: 1934

Oxnard Beet Workers' Strike, 1933 U.S. Commissioner of Conciliation RG 13 170-9201 176-413, undated

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

Includes letters and reports to the Department of Labor on the Oxnard strikes, blaming outside communist agitators for Mexican and Filipino worker unrest.

Dates: undated

Fresno Bee, San Francisco Examiner citations, 1933

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Includes 1933 letter from District Attorney to TJ O'Donnell of the Palo Alto Democratic Club.

Dates: 1933

ACLU and 1933 Cotton Strikes, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Contains photocopied letter to Roger Baldwin and essay by A.L. Wirin on the the 1933 cotton strike and criminal syndicalism laws.

Dates: undated

Anti-Filipino Activities in Salinas Valley, 1934, undated

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Includes accounts of vigilante attack on Filipino labor camp from the Conference for Labor's Civil Rights and the Filipino Labor Union.

Dates: undated