Farm and Cannery Workers Mass Meeting

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Citation

Unknown. 1930s. “Farm and Cannery Workers Mass Meeting.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed April 24, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1136.

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Description

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.

Source

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.

Date

1930s

Collection

Series VII. Photographs

Appears in Exhibits

USDA History Collection