Scope and Contents Scrapbook containing newsclippings documenting a strike in 1941-1942 by the Retail Clerks Local No. 1273 (Modesto, Calif.) and secondary boycotts affecting farmers' deliveries. Clippings document the escalation of the strike and the secondary boycott of drivers refusing to deliver "hot cargo" from farmers through advertisements by The Associated Farmers of Stanislaus County, the Mosedto Citizen's Commitee and the Stanislaus Central Labor Council; the fight, though local, was seen as a more...

Abstract

Consists of materials collected during Johnson's affiliation with Local 1000, including: Sears strike files, 1973-1975; 1938 department store strike settlement agreement; tributes to Larry Vail; photographs, buttons, scrapbooks and public relations items.