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| Title | Warning! Danger! |
| Author | Rendon, Martin (Buddy)
Briones, Cornelio |
| Publisher | Seafood Workers Union |
| Date of Publication | 1948 |
| Notes | Flier distributed by the Seafood Workers Union announcing the lack of a contract by Local 7 with the Canned Salmon Industry and their non-compliance with the Taft-Hartley Law as they have not signed the anti-communist affidavits as required by the Taft-Hartley Law. According to the Seafood Workers Union, Local 7 can no longer be the bargaining voice of the Cannery Workers.
Cornelio Briones, CWFLU member, was trying to move Local 7 in the direction of secession from the Communist-linked FTA International. After he was expelled from the union in 1947, he formed the independent Seafood Workers Union along with Max Gonzales. |
| Contextual Notes | The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was sponsored by U. S. Senator Robert A. Taft (R-OH) and Representative Fred A. Hartley Jr. (R-NJ). Also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act, it was designed to amend much of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), was the first major revision of the Wagner Act, and discontinued parts of the Federal Anti-Injunction Act of 1932. President Truman vetoed the legislation denouncing it as a "slave-labor bill." In spite of President Truman, Congress overrode the President's veto and passed the legislation into law on June 23, 1947. The act forbade unions from contributing to political campaigns and required union leaders to affirm they were not members or supporters of the Communist Party via signed affidavits. This aspect of the act was upheld by the U. S. Supreme Court on May 8th, 1950. |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Fliers (Printed matter) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Seafood Workers Union; Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union. Local 7 (Seattle, Wash.); Cannery workers--Labor unions--Washington (State); Cannery workers--Labor unions--Alaska; United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947; Labor unions and communism--Washington (State); Labor unions and communism--Alaska; Loyalty oaths--United States; Salmon canning industry--Washington (State); Salmon canning industry--Alaska |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)
United States--Alaska |
| Digital ID Number | PNW01363 |
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| Digital Collection | Pacific Northwest Historical Documents
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Cannery Workers & Farm Laborers Union Local 7. Accession No. 3927-001. Box 24/72 |
| Repository Collection Guide | To view the guide for this collection see:
http://digital.lib.washington.edu/findingaids/permalink/CanneryWorkersandFarmLaborersUnionLocal7SeattleWash3927/ |
| Object Type | Flier
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| Physical Description | 1 page 28 x 21 cm |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original text or image at 200 dpi saved in TIFF format, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2012 |
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