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Corresp. related to sale of Linda Vista Federal Housing by the Public Housing Adm.; Linda Vista Property Owners Assoc. and concerns of both veterans and non-veteran occupants of Linda Vista housing.

Scope and Contents Extensive corresp., letters, memos, telegrams, news clippings, etc. related to legal and illegal immigration and labor problems-- especially applicable to agriculture in San Diego County. Examples of crucial organizations and prominent persons noted are: S. D. City Farmers, Inc., S.D. City Farm Bureau, S.D. Central Labor Council, S.D. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. Attorney General Brownell, Samuel S. Vener, Company, Roscoe Hazard, Daley Corp., John W. Quimby, and numerous small property owners...

Scope and Contents Reports & corresp. related to Mexican bracero program and Public Law 78. See U.S. Dept. of Labor, Mexican Farm Labor Program Consultant’s Report (10/59); Agricultural Producers Labor Committee, Cooperative Employment Agreement with S.D. City Farmers, Inc.; National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor, Report on the Farm Labor Policy of the Federal Government...Public Law 78, May, 1960; President’s Committee, Report to the President on Domestic Migratory Farm Labor, 1960; CA. Labor...

Scope and Contents : Reports & corresp. relating to Mexican bracero program & Public Law 78. Critical ref. to C.B.S. Reports, “Harvest of Shame;” comments on P.L. 78 by such organizations as CA Farm Bureau Federation, Canners League of CA, S.D. County Farmers, Inc., Communication Workers of America & AF L/CIO; copy of U.S. Dept. Agriculture’s “Decision...Revoking Employer Authority to Employ Mexican Nationals....” & “Appeal of Mike Schultz from [this] Decision....;” S.D. City Bd. of...

Scope and Contents Corresp., reports, newsletters related to bracero program & Public Law 78; see ref. to Orange County Vegetable Growers, Inc.; Information Letters # 18 & # 19 of the National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor; Farm Labor Users Assoc. critique of 189 day limitation; testimony of Agricultural Producers Labor Committee to U.S. Senate Sub-Committee on Migratory Labor; statements of Tomato Grower’s Assoc., Inc.; Dr. Ben Yellen’s Newsletter, “How Lettuce Growers Get Charity Handouts;” copy...

Scope and Contents Extensive corresp. supporting the extension of Public Law 78 with ref. to H.R. 5479 & H.R. 7185 from the following: Palomar Foods Co., Seaboard Somi’s Lemon Assoc., H.J. Heinz, Desert Growers Assoc., Maypole Vita Pak Citrus Prods.,the El Cajon, Los Angeles & San Diego Chambers of Commerce, Sunkist Growers, Certified Grocers of CA., Canners League of CA, Vons Grocery Co., Council of CA Growers, “FACTS ABOUT BRACEROS,” Ocean Garden Products, Inc., Sarver Nursery Co, Ramsey Seed Co.,...

Scope and Contents Corresp., letters, telegrams, press releases & reports related to Mexican “supplemental” farm labor. Examples are: Congressman Burt Talcott’s Weekly Reports, Press releases & Congressional Record speechs for 1965; controversies over Sec. of Labor Willard Wirt’s agricultural labor directives, use of welfare recipients as farm labor vs. use of bracero program and Congressman Wilson’s comments; Fresno & Madera County Committee on Political Education, 1965 Resolution on NLRB; Interim...