...Federation of Labor until July 12. until my union went with the CIO, and since that time I have been a member of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America, affiliated with the Committee for Industrial Organization. Senator EI,LKNDER. What union do you belong...

...average of $2.73 per week in 1938 (Menefee and Cassmore 1940, p. 9). In November 1937 a representative of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA), a union chartered by the CIO, went to San Antonio in an attempt to organize the pecan workers. When...

...However, at the same time that NMU activists built an almost entirely white organization, leftist members of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) built a mostly black union membership in the cotton warehouses and compressing and seed oil plants...

...recruiter and organizer and working on the labor newspaper The Voice of Labor. In 1937, a Kauai local of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) was granted a charter. Hall spent the next few years organizing workers for the UCAPAWA in Kauai. He...

...quickly established himself as an important force nationally in his efforts toward the formation in 1936 of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Under UCAPAWA's loose organizational structure, Woolf acted as its de facto regional president from...

...the early 1930s, he became involved in union organizing through his friendship with Chris Mensalvas of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA); he also participated in the activities of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organization). He served...

...the most important manifestations of the continuing evolution of such alternatives was the founding of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) in July 1937. An affiliate of the upstart Congress of Industrial Organizations, UCAPAWA in many ways...

...the early 1930s, he became involved in union-organizing through his friendship with Chris Mensalvas of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). He also participated in activities of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organization). As editor of The...

...Camp Manager Michael P. Bruick prohibited publication of a flyer issued by the Tulare County local of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) in the camp newsletter, The Hub. He justified his action on the grounds that he was upholding an ordinance...

...American workers in the fields and canneries of California's agricultural factories. The formation of the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) in 1937 was the result of a decade of agricultural strikes and organizing, which I discuss in chapter...