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Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez (center; Dolores Huerta, right) took the UFW's demand on five hazardous pesticides to the steps of the California capitol in Sacramento after UFW member Jose Campost Martinez, 25, died while spraying Parathion, a toxic pesticide. Chavez called on Governor George Deukmejian to ban Parathion immediately saying, "agribusiness and the agri-chemical industry reap their benefits. The workers bury their dead. That is not the way it should be". (4-2-90).
At storefront demonstration in Washington to press labor's boycott of California table grapes, UFW Vice President Arturo Rodriguez gets some enthusiastic support. From left, Newspaper Guild President Charles Dale; TNG office administrator Mary Aldrich; Ron Richardson, President of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 25; TNG Secretary-Treasurer John Edgington; Josh Williams, President of the metropolitan Washington AFL-CIO, and Rodriguez. Dale, who participated in the UFW's "fast for life" campaign, called on union members to help ban five toxic pesticides used on California grapes. (40-4-88).
Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez at Mass where he ended his 36-day "Fast for Life" passes small wooden cross to Rev. Jesse Jackson who then fasted fro three days. The continuing fast by trade unionists, clergy, and celebrities underscores the UFW's drive to ban the use of five toxic pesticides on California table grapes. The pesticides have caused deaths and illnesses among the farm worker families in the San Joaquin Valley. (36-4-88).
Union banners were in place as nearly 100,000 people joined in a 25th anniversary renewal of the 1963 March on Washington that demanded and achieved passage of the Civil Rights Act. The dream of which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke is still alive the rally testified. (36-3-88).
Teamsters President, William J. McCarthy leads ITB members in a St. Louis march supporting Amalgamated Transit Workers, on strike against Greyhound bus lines for the past three months. Some 325 delegates to the IBT central states conference joined in the demonstration. (11-1-90).
Striking members of the Amalgamated Transit Union march to Washington's Union Station for a rally in their continuing efforts to win a fail settlement at Greyhound bus lines. March leaders included ATU President James LaSala and civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson and Rosa Parks. The ATU struck Greyhound on March 2. (13-1-90).
Pledges of labor solidarity with striking members of the Amalgamated Transit Union are made by AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland at the Greyhound bus terminal in Louisville, KY. Helping man the picket line were federation Vice Presidents William Bywater and Richard Trumka, as well as Kentucky AFL-CIO president Robert Curtis and Executive Secretary-Treasurer Ronald Cyrus. The ATU has been on strike against Greyhound since March 2. (21-2-90).
Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1600 in New Orleans were buoyed by a show of solidarity from delegates to the Letter Carriers' convention. NALC President Vincent Sombrotto, center, leads members in picketing outside the Greyhound terminal. (18-3-90).
This youngster joins in a rally at the Washington, DC Greyhound terminal where 150 trade unionists show their support for the 9,300 Amalgamated Transit Union members who have been on strike against Greyhound Lines Inc., since last March 2. Rallies were held in Atlanta, New York, Detroit, Dallas, Cincinnati, and Portland, Ore., where Brenda Bowman was a guest speaker. Bowman is the daughter of Bob Waterhouse, a striker who was killed by a scab-driven bus in Redding, Calif. (18-4-90).
There are six color photos of a community fair of some kind outside a church. There is no indication of who the sponsors are or where the fair is being held.
There are eight photos of a demonstration. However, there is no indication of the date, place, or people in the photos.
A huge marionette of legendary union organizer Mary Harris "Mother" Jones is greeted with applause by Ravenswood Aluminum Corp. stakeholders in Charleston, WV. The Steelworkers called the January 22 meeting to challenge the company's demeaning attitude toward workers and the community. RAC "permanently replaces 1,700 USWA members with scabs in November 1990". (March, 1 1992).
At a Washington press conference, Ron Carey claims victory in a three-way race for the presidency of the Teamsters. Carey, 54, was president of IBT Local 804 in Queens, NY and drew 48.5% of the membership vote; R.V. Durham 33.2%; and Walter Shea 18.2%. Durham filed a protest with federal elections officers who conducted the membership election. January 2, 1992.
This ad by a US broker was displayed during Senate hearings on the North American Free Trade Agreement showing how runaway American manufacturers can exploit Mexican workers at poverty pay levels of less than $1 an hour. (8-2-93).
Struggling to make ends meet with poverty-level wages, workers at Mexico's maquiladora plants are forced to live in shantytowns on polluted streams. But President Bush continues to press for the North American Free Trade Agreement that woefully lacks worker rights and environmental safeguards. (3-3-91).
More American jobs will be wiped out under President Bush's proposed free trade agreement with Mexico, Electronic Workers President William H. Bywater tells reporters as IUE members picket outside the Commerce Department. The Bush administration is seeking renewal of 'fast track' authority, which would bar amendments and limit discussion on the trade proposal. (7-4-91). (Editors: See April 1, 1991, issue of AFL-CIO News for details.).
(Series 3, Box 4, Folder 2).
New York Times Feature, June 14, 1987; Washington Post Feature, November 3, 1987 (Series 3, Box 12, Folder 9).
Letter, [1924?] March 27, to Dr. Estabrook. Handwritten in ink, signed. 5 p. on 3 l.
Memorandum: "Questions May 7, 1924, dated 1924 May 10, Sweet Briar, Va". Typescript. 3 l.
a. "List of children already examined at Amherst Mission".
a. Amherst Co. Records: Criminal Records, Chancery book, Marriage bonds.
a. "Indian - Negro - White Group, Amherst, Va". 2-1-1923.
a. University of Minnesota. Social Hygiene Bureau. "Questions Submitted by Minneapolis Visiting Nurses...".
a. List of publications, etc.
a. Gonorrhea in the Female.
a. The Committee on Venereal Disease of the Charity Organization Society. The Social Workers Approach to the Problem of Venereal Disease.