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Report regarding the Kennedy Administration farm plan, statements on "The Cost Squeeze on Farmers" and "Farm Costs and Net Farm Income," and memorandums from Anderson.

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Flyers, correspondence, news clippings, and notes primarily regarding the 1961 lettuce strike in California's Imperial Valley. Topics include Bruce Church Company, United Packinghouse Workers of America, Jackson Produce, Bud Antle Ranch, Fred Bright Co., and use of braceros.

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Legal documents pertaining to lawsuits by farmers against AWOC representatives and anti-picketing.

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Scrapbook compiled by Ernie Marrs, an AWOC organizer and folk singer. Contains news clippings on bracero and farm worker issues, flyers, drawings, AWOC newsletters, and photographs with narrative text.

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Booklets, newsletters, and statements, Includes reports from public hearings and Frederick Van Dyke statement. Topics include recruitment of domestic farm workers, labor legislation, and Public Law 78.

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Agreement between United Packinghouse Workers of America and NAWU, and correspondence and documents by Ernesto Galarza.

Contents From the Series: Contains documents pertaining to Anderson’s tenure as AWOC's director of research, a position created for him by Director Norman Smith. Includes administrative papers, such as expense and activity reports, agendas and minutes, AWOC newsletters, and statements drafted by Anderson. Also contains the history of AWOC and a log of Anderson's recorded his personal thoughts and daily work activities. Contains correspondence; documents from various labor, governmental and farmer organizations; and...

Contents From the Series: Contains documents pertaining to Anderson’s tenure as AWOC's director of research, a position created for him by Director Norman Smith. Includes administrative papers, such as expense and activity reports, agendas and minutes, AWOC newsletters, and statements drafted by Anderson. Also contains the history of AWOC and a log of Anderson's recorded his personal thoughts and daily work activities. Contains correspondence; documents from various labor, governmental and farmer organizations; and...

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Newspaper clippings. Topics include organizing farm labor, AFL-CIO's opposition to the governor's water plan, unionizing farm labor, property tax irregularities on land used for farming, and wages for farm workers. Includes New York Times magazine article on migrant workers.

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Topics include the Imperial Valley Farmers Association, AFL-CIO ceasing funding to AWOC, and child labor.