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  • Bio: (1898-1994) Long-time friend and political associate of LBJ; Member, Texas House of Representatives and Senate, 1929-1936; Special Assistant, U.S. Attorney General, 1936-1940; General Counsel, United Mine Workers of America, 1940-1966; Counsel
  • LBJ Connection: Long-time friend and political associate of LBJ; Member, Texas House of Representatives and Senate, 1929-1936; Special Assistant, U.S. Attorney General, 1936-1940; General Counsel, United Mine Workers of America, 1940-1966; Counsel
  • Latin America
  • DISCUSSION OF BRACERO PROGRAM TO PERMIT MEXICAN FARM WORKERS TO ENTER US FOR AGRICULTURAL WORK; POSSIBILITY OF UNEMPLOYED US WORKERS PERFORMING MIGRANT FARM WORK INSTEAD OF IMPORTED LABOR
  • OF INQUIRY/MILITARY AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY Processed. Box 5 Board created by Executive Order 11344, 4/15/67, for dispute between AVCO Corporation and International Union of United Auto, Aerospace, and Agriculture Implement Workers of America. LA 1-2/Military Jet
  • , Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 1504 Indianapolis, Ind William Pridemore, United Automobile Aircraft, Agricultural Implement Workers of America, Local 78, Detroit, Mich. May 23, 1966 Meyer Proctor. Natl Assof of Broadcast Employees
  • prices-B: What sort of farm was it? L: General livestock and grain, mostly wheat. That's the heart of the wheat belt, the winter wheat belt of the United States. other work. I gradually got into Farm prices, especially wheat, went down, down, until
  • Luft’s career; 1932 meeting with farm leaders in Kansas; Congressman Floyd Breeding; John A. Schnittker; Hatch Act; appointed by Freeman; appraisal of Freeman; outline of general policy; crop insurance; funding; legislative drafting; staff; racial
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOHN A. BAKER INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Arlington, Virginia Tape 1 of 1 B: My first personal involvement in foreign migratory farm worker activity in the United States--which might be thought
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest
  • : The cooperatives failed and the family-sized units succeeded. I even remember the names of the two failures, the worst failures: Terrebonne in Louisiana and Lake Dick in Arkansas. to a collective farm, those. It was awful close The members were paid a minimum
  • Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest
  • LBJ Connection: President, Communications Workers of America, 1949-1974; Vice President, AFL-CIO; Member, President's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1963
  • . Mq 28 to June 1, 1952 Joa& Luia llamo1 elected eecretar7 for training ot Jational. Confederation ot Rural Workers ot Oaatemal.a. June 1952 DiN'io !!, Centro America,government official. newapaper, quoted Cvloa Manuel Pellecer aa aa;,ing
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Guatemala"
  • the two are ao deeply Inter­ up the United Nations. ,The veto, to serve the common man ln twined. All this I knew before I to Russia and America, ls partly peaceful abundance." left America. valued by -- botb u a guarantee I also said that, just
  • , Gen'l Pres. United Assn; Howard I. Henson, Gen'l Pres., Journeymen Stone Cutters Assn of North America; Edward F. Carlough, Gen'l Pres., Sheet Metal Workers Int'l Assn, Charles D. Aquadro, Int'l Pres., United Slate, Tile & Comp, Roofers, Edward J.Leonard
  • . - President, United Steelworkers of America, Pittsburgh Ackley, Hon Gardner, Chairman, CEA Mr. Charles D. Aquadro, President, United Slate, Tile and Composition Roof Damp and Waterproof Workers Assoc, Washington, D. Mr. Harry C. Bates, Vice President, AFL-CIO
  • in the American Federation of Government Employees and then when the CIO was formed, we decided to affiliate with the United Federal Workers in the CIO . And during this period, there were these sort of contacts with staff employees in the wage-hour unit
  • Biographical information; positions at the Department of Labor; Task Force regarding the administration of the Landrum-Griffin Act; Labor Board; Bureau of Standards; Federal Workers
  • to the Flower &x __ f___±I Garden for •/> y REMARKS list to DTtothe Repr esentatives of the Federal Farm Loan Board jj jj | On the steps while the President made his remarks were j Sen Clinton Anderson Congressman George Mahon Fred Knutsen, President
  • ise of H itler meant to farmers, ·mocracy. The Roosevelt program. p lan workers and businessmen in the gave more power to the people. lar < United States. This blind leader• Now we have launched a great But ship ' believed that the United na tional
  • , Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Wash., DC William DuChessi, Textile Workers Union of America , Wash., DC Edward Oliver, Amalgamated Transit Union, Wash, DC Richard Murphy, Building Service Employees, Wash., DC Charles Lipsen, Retail Clerks Intl Assoc Ben
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  • LBJ Connection: Texas political activist; District Counsel, United Steelworkers of America
  • ________ i i ^^_________________________________ ________ OFF RECORD; Walter Reuther \ Mr. Reuther presented to the President the United Auto Workers' Social Justice ] Award - "Lyndon B. Johnson. Architect of the Great Society"-- large and heavy plaque
  • . He served as General Counsel for the United Mine Workers of America. Scope and content note: This collection includes materials created and gathered by Welly K. Hopkins during his political and legal career. There is correspondence between Congressman
  • National Archives and Records Administration http://archives.gov Folder Title and Content Description Contracts 0363 INACTIVE United State Gov’t: Public Works Administration Loan & Grant Agreement – Original 6-1-35 Loan Agreements with U.S. (June 1, l935
  • ~ 7 EMBASSY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA New Delhi, India November 3 , 1967 Mr. W.W. Rostow The White House Washington, D.C. Dear Walt: At the risk of overburdening your reading load, I am enclosing background memoranda which deal
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first of the file unit.
  • See all scanned items from NSF-Hamilton file unit "India"
  • . The third kind of rural economy is also widespread in South America; it is a commercial agriculture based on a market economy. In this kind of economy, a large part of the farm production,- whatever the size of unit of land tenure, is sold off the farm
  • Latin America
  • Folder, "NSAM # 349: Development of the Frontiers of South America, 5/31/1966 [3 of 3]," National Security Action Memorandums, NSF, Box 8
  • on Capitol Hill. There appropriations for Farmer Cooperative Service must go through the Agriculture Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, which is entirely oriented toward commercial farming and is not particularly concerned with rural America
  • would come in, the great tomato growers would merely order X number of braceros or Mexican farm workers. Through the Department of Labor and the Department of Immigration those braceros in effect would be delivered. Those braceros wo~ld do the work
  • Civil service federal union third party mediation; the unique issues of a federal worker union; how Reynolds’ became Undersecretary of Labor, 1967; Reynolds’ work in a commission to examine certain U.S. foreign and domestic policies; involvement
  • Italian American Labor Council, International President United Textiles Workers of America Vincent La Capria, Vice President, United Italian American Labor Council, Vice President Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America E. Howard Molisani, Secretary United
  • , I grew up on a farm in Central Kansas, west of Wichita--a wheat and livestock farm--and lived there until I was a young man; went off to college at Kansas State University where I studied agricultural economics, and agricultural subjects generally
  • administrations; agricultural legislation; Freeman’s “report and review” sessions; 1965 Food and Agriculture Act; BOB; price support program; Farm Bureau; Food for Peace Program (PL480); India; self-help feature; aid to Latin America; AID mission; relationship
  • FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT USE ONLY II-B-1 ~. PUBLIC SECTOR SURVEY AND PROGRAM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT USE ONLY FOR UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT USE ONLY I.I-B-1 Chapter 1 PUBLIC WORKS - HEADQUARTERS The High
  • as Spanish. And then he spoke of the grand mixture in the New World between the European, the Indian and the African. In the United States there is even a greater mixture of diverse customs and cultures than in most of Latin America. British in blood
  • and explanation toward .these countries for Dr. Abernathy and his colleague, the Rev. Andrew Young, who raised the issue. Immigration Policies --Grievance: Immigration policies which permit entry into the United States of foreign workers (particularly those from
  • Details of restriction(s) may be found on the withdrawal sheet in the first folder of the file unit. Withdrawal sheets refer to file units and are not necessarily applicable to all individual folders.
  • See all scanned items from file unit "Walt Rostow, Vol. 75: May 6‑8, 1968"
  • ~ There was a period when the communists really had power in this country. Boy, did they have power! of very important unions. They controlled a number They had control over the United Automobile Workers; they had control over the United Electrical Workers
  • . March 78 Chron. FY 78 Incoming Correspondence Hard Traveling: Migrant Farm Workers in America Division of Farmworker Programs Needs Assessment 11/1977 CFNP Comments Computer Printouts: Grantee Signings and Obligations - FY78 Computer Printouts: CFNP Team
  • be confined to two in number with some such general wording as follows: (a) Are you in favor of becoming an independent nation? (b) Are you in favor of a permanent affiliation with the United States of America? There will be some nations in the United
  • ¥!i-'1.ll,t.Aoctrine that ".national ~•~~i . .;•,• ,.:: , · ., ., defense" co1111ists Jn being pre• _~ pared to rep¢f atta_ck, second, Jha; PEARI,. . B,AR~OR ~ i.he. Jiih:r.9r . the Unit-el,\ Statt!s.1s geographical~ 1)t the .national weakneises wb:Ich
  • and operations in Navy Department. 3/10-11 Frances Perkins appears before Vinson’s Naval Affairs Committee on absenteeism bill. 3/15 John L. Lewis, president United Mine Workers of America, threatens to call a strike of 450,000 soft coal miners
  • the system of public welfare in America. The welfare system, as I stated to the Congress last year, pleases no one. 'J:'.he cost of administering welfare is far too high -­ because workers mu'•t spend 900/o 0£ their time investigating recipients · to make
  • attending were Myer Feldman ; Georg e H . Love , Chairma n o f the Board , Consolidatio n Coa l Company ; Josep h P. Routh , Chairma n o f the Board , Th e Pittsto n Company ; Joh n L . Lewis , Presiden t Emeritus, United Min e Worker s o f America; W
  • America. That is a United Nations commission that was meeting in Mexico in May. And then President Díaz Ordaz issued a statement more or less like this: "We have been obliged to condemn certain things that have happened in Santo Domingo because
  • for Latin America; Third Inter-American Special Conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1967; American foreign investment in Mexico; Inter-American Bank of Development; LBJ's visit to Mexico City in April 1966; Colorado River salinity problem; communism in Mexico
  • . Housing guarantees have gone up twenty times in the last two years. So you see in both the United States and Latin America we are moving more and more swiftly to meet the obligations and to reach the goals that we set in the Alliance for Progress
  • of the Union Occupation Economy (Inflation, Income, Earnings, Workers, Employment) Poverty – Welfare Discretionary Income [Unlabeled folders, three] “Foul” Matter Unsorted, unlabeled material “The Real America,” Uncorrected Proof, Uncorrected Page Proof [2
  • in this world. But whatever those discussions produce, this is a time to serve notice on the world that America~ speak with a united voice. Thie is a time to demonstrate that we will defend our freedoms. This ia a time to make it unmistakably clear that we
  • See all scanned items from file unit "S. Con. Res. 91, Guatemala"