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Box 1

 Container

Contains 10 Results:

Northeast Division Structure

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Abstract

copy of handwritten UFW heirarchical structure for the Northeast division. Approximate date is 1970

Dates: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1975

Article reprints, 1973 - 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Abstract

Articles from the following journals and newspapers are included : AFL-CIO News, Bakersfield Californian, The Boston Globe, The Fresno Bee, The New York Times, Reader's Digest, Sacramento Bee, The Nation (September 1973), The Magazine (August 1975), The Interpretor, The New York Times (1973), The Pilot (August 1975), and the OPEiU Local 153 Office and Professional Employees International Union.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1973 - 1975

Boycotts - Star Markets, 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Abstract

Star Market was a New England chain of supermarkets based in Greater Boston. Included in the folder are a local report that includes hours picketed, number of Star Markets picketed and the number of turnaways, a news handout reporting the fire gutting the office of the New England Boycott Committee and information on Star market picketlines and an update on the lettuce boycott efforts in the Imperial Valley dated December 12, 1975

Dates: 1975

House meeting agendas, daily and weekly reports, October 1975 through March 1976, 1975 - 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Abstract

This folder includes meeting notes, handouts, flyers and correspondence for the Northeast Region house. Many are noted or addressed to John Jackson who was the area coordinator.

Dates: 1975 - 1976

Flyers, 1974 - 1979

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Abstract

This folder includes miscellaneous flyers and cards supporting the UFW, boycott news including a flyer on A & P suppermarkets, boycott Red Coach lettuce, Boycott Gallo Wines and a recruitment flyer.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1974 - 1979

National Farm Workers Health Group, 1974

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Abstract

This folder contains a single flyer recruitment mailer directed at health professionals describing the health group history and goals.

Dates: 1974

Outline of Election Struggle in California, 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Abstract

This folder includes a handwritten document with various notes but primarily updates on the activity in California UFW efforts, suggestions on effective public relations and related notes on boycotting.

Dates: 1976

Report of the Second Constitutional Convention, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, 1975

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Abstract

This folder includes two copies of the 1975 Convention held in Fresno California summary notes. The reverse side includes an LA Times article titled "6 UFWA Members Seized in Test of Farm Law Issue". One of the members arrested was UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta.

Dates: 1975

Boston Massachusetts Office notes, 1975 - 1976

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Abstract

This folder includes a City of Boston City Council resolution calling on residents to refrain from the purchase of non-UFW table grapes until a contract is signed between the workers and the growers; agendas, staff meeting notes; guidelines on a National Farmworker Ministry "Sopa por la Causa" meal to promote awareness of the poor peoples dinners; list of endorsements

Dates: Majority of material found within 1975 - 1976

United Farm Workers Connecticut - New England Region 7 collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 536 large
Abstract

This collection includes 10 files of information gathered or distrubuted as part of the regional house and its' work.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1975