Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union Local 18257 letter to the Mayor of Kent, Washington, R. E. Wooden, asking for his cooperation with organized labor and criticizing his mobilization of local vigilantes to intimidate and drive out Filipino workers from the White River Valley, April 15, 1937
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Torres, Ponce
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Letter to the Mayor of Kent, Washington, R. E. Wooden, asking for his cooperation with organized labor and the striking farm workers. Quote from document: "We have fully understood that you have mobilized a big force of vigilantes and that you are directing and commanding it with the full idea to terrorize all the farm laborers in the White River Valley. We further noted that you and your vigilantes are in full accord to drive out all those strikers out of the Valley should they refuse to work under those deplorable conditions and the slavery system which the employers are practicing for years upon them. ... On the other hand you have challenged the peaceful picketers and advocated troubles by organizing your vigilantes and drove the Filipino Workers out of the Valley, which is the most barbaric and undemocratic action a man of your capacity as a Mayor in Kent ever acted upon."
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