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Box 1

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

National Recovery Administration. Labor Advisory Board (NRA-LAB), 1933-1934

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

Includes 9 page mimeo entitled, "The NRA and the Negro Worker," by Gustov Peck; Correspondence re request of investigation into treatment and living and labor conditions of farm laborers in the Sugar Belt of Louisiana; Requests for changes in codes; re reasons for North and South wage differentials; re question of Negro representation on Advisory Board; re codes for lumber and timber industry, statement (10 pages) of Negro Industrial League concerning the affect of Negro labor

Dates: 1933-1934

NRA-LAB - Subject File of "Negro Displacement" -, 1934

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

Correspondence with Matthew F. Boyd, Assistant Labor Advisor of the Board re the displacement of Negroes under the NRA in various localities; 7 page mimeo "Conclusions from Survey in Alabama of the Effect of the Operations of the NRA Code on Negro Labor;" 6 page mimeo, "A Study of the Position of Negro Workers Under the National Industrial Recovery Act;" "The Subnormal Negro and the Subnormal Code."

Dates: 1934

NRA-LAB - Subject File - "Negro Labor" -, 1933-1934

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Rose Schneiderman, member, Labor Advisory Board and others re Negro representative to be placed on the Board; wages of Negroes in various industries; discrimination against Negroes in unions

Dates: 1933-1934

NRA-LAB - "Negro Labor" -, 1933-1934

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

Correspondence re the displacement of Negroes due to the payment of code wages and hours; "Statement of the Negro Industrial League concerning the Code of Fair Competition for the Cotton Textile Industry"

Dates: 1933-1934

NRA-LAB - "Regional Differentials", 1933

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence re the wage differentials between Black and white laborers

Dates: 1933

NRA-LAB - "Southern" -, 1933

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Correspondence re skilled and unskilled labor in the south; 3 page mimeo "Objection to Minimum Wage Discrimination Against Negro Workers," by General Secretary of the National Consumer's League

Dates: 1933

NRA-LAB, 1934-1935

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Correspondence re wage differentials (regional and racial); code definition of gin workers; request for exemptions under the code

Dates: 1934-1935

NRA - General -, 1934-1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

7 page mimeo "Excerpts from the Statement of John P. Davis, Given at the Hearing on Employment Provisions in Codes of Fair Competition on February 2, 1935;" Differentials-geographic; several pages of testimony re strike situation at Packard Motor Company because of race issue

Dates: 1934-1943

NRA - Report -, 1934

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Includes "Report of the Agriculture Committee of the Inter-Departmental Group Concerned with the Special Problem of Negroes, May 1934," 16 pages

Dates: 1934