Series 1, subseries 1, Box 1.1/10, "VIII E3b. Assistance for migrant labor, New Jersey. 1935-1937, n.d." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.
Flyer advertising a meeting promoting the Agricultural Workers Union in New Jersey,
1935. This meeting was part of a movement towards unionizing workers on farms and in
canneries in south and central
New Jersey during the mid-1930s. This movement also involved other groups, including the
Communist party, and coalesced around such events as the murder of a black agricultural worker
and Mussolini's attack on Ethiopia. Based on materials in the collection, this was a movement
centered in the black community, but there were attempts to bring agricultural workers of all
races together to bring about higher wages and unemployment insurance.
Series 1, subseries 1, Box 1.1/10, "VIII E3b. Assistance for migrant labor, New Jersey.
1935-1937, n.d." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.
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