Bracero Workers
#5484 Railway Labor Executives' Association Records
The Railway Labor Executives' Association (RLEA) Records includes records of Mexican Nationals’ employment on railroads from 1944-1951, records from the State Department on Mexican importations from 1950-1951 and 1954-1958, Spanish tourist pamphlets on the Mexico City region from 1949-1950, the Mexican Railroad Training Program from 1944-45, a 1946 treaty between the US and Mexico regarding Boulder (Hoover) Dam, the 1960 President’s Conference on Occupational Safety, and Joint US-Mexico Trade Union Committee documentation from 1960-1967 in boxes 2, 13, 28, 29, 39, 48, 65, 76, 91, 99, 110, 126, 135, and 142.
#6046 Archives Union File (AUF), Section 5: Boxes 257-319
The Archives Union File (AUF) contains a 1964 publication titled “New Hope for Braceros” by Max Awner in box 275 folder 3.
#5204 mf Southern Tenant Farmers Union Records on Microfilm
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union Records on Microfilm contains papers from 1946-47 on the National Farm Labor Union and its interactions with illegal Mexican immigrants, a press release and report of the Executive Council, and NFLU Constitution as amended by the 13th NFLU Annual Convention in 1947, a USDA hearing, an exchange with the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization on the “wetback” problem, a memorandum by NFLU organizer George Webber, a reply from the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, NFLU memoranda on the US-Mexican International Executive Agreement, minutes of a California NFLU Organizing Committee, a memorandum from Mitchell to Congressman Leonard Irving, exchange between Mitchell and Rev. Johnnie F. Moore, another between Mitchell and Roger N. Baldwin, a report titled “Wetbacks” by George I. Sanchez and Lyle Sounders, a 12-page analysis of the International Executive Agreement with Mexico, letters from Mitchell to congressmen and President Truman, papers on the NFLU strike in San Joaquin, California, papers on the operation of the US Employment Service in California, papers on the Imperial Valley campaign, a 23-page NFLU report titled “The Wetback Strike”, a report from Ernesto Galarza on a joint membership arrangement with the Alianza Nacional de Braceros de Mexico, “Comments on the Migrant Labor Agreement of 1951” by Galarza, reports by NSF Executive Secretary Beth Biderman, information on union’s victory in 1952 with Department of Labor action to limit use of “wetbacks” and “braceros”, more exchanges between Mitchell and his key organizers, as well as to George Meany, a memorandum on the AFL-CIO merger and NAWU’s status under such, more reports by Galarza, papers on the problematic “deal” made by the Louisiana State Labor Council, and correspondence regarding the dispute with UPWA over Lousiana sugar workers, and more, all on reels 32 (items 1 and 4), 4 (items 1-3), 35 (items 1,7-8), 36 (items 2,8,10), 37 (item 1), 38 (item 7-8), 39 (item 7), 40 (item 3), and 50 (item 5).
#5582: Archives Foreign File (AFF) Section 2: Boxes 23-44
The Archives Foreign File (AFF) includes a 1958 press release about the U.S. Mexican Trade Union Group calling the Secretary of Labor to renew a plea to Congress for funds to protect braceros in box 30 folder 14 (item 2).
#6047: Archives Information File, Section 1: Boxes 1-22
The Archives Information File includes a publication titled a “Brief History of the Bracero System and its Impact on Farm Labor in California”, a 1965 publication titled “The Mexican Farm Labor Program” by Mary R. Heslet, a 1952 publication titled “Mexican Agricultural Workers”, a 1961 “Report of Operations of Mexican Farm Labor Program” by the U.S. Department of Labor, a 1953 publication titled “Importation of Foreign Agricultural Workers” by the Committee on Agriculture, a 1953 publication from the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry titled “Extension of Mexican Farm Labor Program”, and a 1953 publication titled “Strangers in Our Fields” by Ernesto Galarza, in box 3 folders 6 (item 6), 17 (item 1), and 23 (items 5, 9-11, 13).
#5956 Archives Organization File Additional Records, Section 1 ...
The Archives Organization File Additional Records collection includes a publication of the Mexican Farm Labor Program, a consultants report, in box 1 folder 3 (item 2).
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