- Title
- Ernie Marrs scrapbook pages on migrant agricultural labor
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- Date
- 08 February 1961
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- Creator
- ["Marrs, Ernie"]
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- Description
- Scrapbook containing news clippings, flyers, original writings and observations about the work of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) through the eyes of a rank and file member. This object is from the personal papers of researcher Henry P. Anderson. The materials cover agricultural labor conditions, corporate agriculture and farm economy, pesticide use and effect on workers, agriculture-related legislation, farmer associations, and labor, religious and political organizing efforts to improve agricultural working conditions. The papers include extensive correspondence and news clippings, and Anderson’s doctoral research into the Bracero Program in California.
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- Form/Genre
- ["Albums (Books)"]
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Ernie Marrs scrapbook pages on migrant agricultural labor
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This is not to be considered as an official, publication of the
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. Some parts of
it are of such a nature; others are strictly personal comments of
one rank-and-f ile member.
In fact, I was told by one official, on May 24th, I960: "I be¬
lieve, on general principles, it would be better if you did your
writing away from the Union hall." He was probably right, too; I
scribble about other things as well - peace, Jim Crow, greed, taxes,
and practically anything 1 come across.
i may have been unjust to some of the papers whose clippings are
to be found herein; or to various growers, public officials, and
others who are trying to make a living in a case-hardened world. My
reactions were, at least, honest expressions of my feelings about
what 1 considered to be unfair and unjust to the men 1 worked with.
No doubt, the readers of these notebooks - if any - will find
many places where they disagree with me. My viewpoint here is con¬
sistently that of the under-dog from the 'Other side
о/
the tracks;
I’ve never lived far away from there.
As Woody Guthrie put it: "All you can write is what you see." So
proceed at your own risk, and see what I saw. Or a fragment of it..
-- Ernie Marhs
February 8, 1961