[Track 1]
[0:00:00 - 0:02:39] Live recording of a meeting of the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) that begins with labor songs being sung in spanish.
[0:02:40 - 0:09:30] Silence.
[0:09:31 - 1:58:30] Live recording of a meeting of the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) including representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor, Migrant Ministry, labor unions, and other unidentified agencies and organizations. Speakers, including Henry P. Anderson and Father Paulson, discuss workers compensation, wages, a minimum wage for agricultural workers, the Bracero Program, agricultural working conditions, and efforts to organize farm workers.
[Track 2] Speakers at the AWA meeting discuss the effects of waves of migration on the agricultural industry in California, contrasting the social integration of workers from the Bracero Program with previous migrant workers from China, Mexico, the Philippines, and Oklahoma. Includes speakers from the packinghouse, auto, and agricultural industries discussing the difficulties of organizing workers for better conditions. Includes some speeches in spanish.
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Side 1: Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) meetings, Stockton, March and April 26, 1959. North Hayes, Andy Arellano, Ft. McCullough, Delro, Ortega. Side 2: Religion and Labor Committee, Los Angeles. (Blank at beginning)
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