Reel 32

Scope and Contents The Di Giorgio strike again becomes the most important topic in the correspondence in May, especially after the shooting of strike leader Jim Price on May 18. In addition to the flood of telegrams and press releases following the shooting, see the length report by Ernesto Galarza entitled "Poverty in the Valley of Plenty" (1), Mitchell to organizer Hank Hasiwar on a plan to picket Di Giorgio plants throughout the country (6), and the opinion of Herbert S. Thatcher, AFL General Counsel, on...

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...