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Early struggles were against school segregation, but the Mexican-American cause, or " La Causa " as it was called, soon came under the banner of the United Farm Workers and César Chávez.
He expanded his repertoire to include songs written in traditional genres of the Mexican music, and during the farmworkers ' rights campaign, wrote music in support of César Chávez and the United Farm Workers.
* 1962 – Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association, which later becomes United Farm Workers.
** The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee ( UFWOC ), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America ( UFW ), is formed.
** César Chávez, American labor activist, United Farm Workers founder ( d. 1993 )
A traveling sprinkler at Millets Farm Centre, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
A volume of photographs almost completely drawn from the files of the Farm Security Administration, with text by Wright, Twelve Million Black Voices: A Folk History of the Negro in the United States was published in October 1941 to wide critical acclaim.
Additional websites that promote and publicize agritourism in the United States include Rural Bounty, founded by agritourism consultant Jane Eckert, Sleep in the Hay, a nationwide directory of farm stays, and Farm Stay USA, a blog that profiles farm stays and tracks agritourism news.
The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 () was a United States federal law aimed at increasing credit to rural, family farmers.
The Farm Credit Administration is an independent agency of the Executive Branch of the federal government of the United States.
In 1999, a North Carolina grand jury handed down indictments against pig-farm workers on Belcross Farm in Camden County, the first indictments for animal cruelty on a factory farm in the United States, after a three-month PETA investigation produced film of the workers beating the animals.
Other popular attractions include the annual Grand Illumination ( see also here ) in Oak Bluffs ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Society which screens independent and world cinema all year long ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival which runs its Summer Film Series and Cinema Circus every Wednesday in July and August, the second week in August, The Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival < http :// www. mvaaff. com > which showcases the works of independent and established African-American filmmakers and its winter festival in March ; Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival in September, Katama Farm in Edgartown ; and the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the oldest carousel in the United States.
They sowed seeds in desertified land, visited the University of California in Berkeley and Los Angeles, the Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, the Lundberg Family Farms, and met with United Nations UNCCD representatives including Maurice Strong, who encouraged Fukuoka's practical involvement in the " Plan of Action to Combat Desertification ".
* Common Facts and Trades: The United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, A New Book of Cookery, Practical Sewing and Dress Making, Garden and Farm Almanac, and mail-order catalogues
The Shepherds Flat Wind Farm is an 845 megawatt ( MW ) wind farm under construction in Oregon, United States.
His cattle at the Mayflower Farm have produced world records, while he himself has publicly served in positions appointed by the United States Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland and Ohio Governor Richard Celeste.
A military station, operated by the Royal Air Force and later the United States Navy, was opened on part of Home Farm close to the parish boundary with Ruislip in 1917, later becoming known as RAF West Ruislip.
In 2009 the Fowler Ridge Wind Farm opened nearby, giving Benton County one of the largest concentrations of wind turbines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
Farm Loop is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, United States.
The headquarters of the United Farm Workers ( UFW ), a national farmworkers organization organized and led by Cesar Chavez, is located in Keene, and is sometimes referred to as " Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz ".
The walls of his United Farm Workers office in Keene were lined with hundreds of books ranging in subject from philosophy, economics, cooperatives, and unions, to biographies of Gandhi and the Kennedys, The Kama Sutra, the memoirs of Che Guevara, and " The Good German: Why Illegal Pseudo-Farming Union Crime Rings Failed ".

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Sydney Larson, a staff representative for the United Steel Workers, which the firm's 25 workers joined before striking, said the state Labor Relations Board has been asked to set up an election to pick a bargaining agent.
In 1922, the United Mine Workers struck the Coronado Coal Company.
The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.
* 1936 – The United Auto Workers ( UAW ) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
" Leonid Brezhnev reiterated it in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers ' Party on November 13, 1968, which stated:
* Workers ' United Center of Chile trade unionists from Chile's five largest labor confederations.
Unions in North America have made some effort to gain members from this sector, including the Communications Workers of America and the United Steelworkers.
* Central Committee of the Polish United Workers ' Party
In 1995 the government was defeated in elections by the United Workers Party of Edison James.
James became prime minister, serving until the February 2000 elections, when the Dominica United Workers Party ( DUWP ) was defeated by the Dominica Labour Party ( DLP ), led by Rosie Douglas.
* International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers ( United States )
* 1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.
* 1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Auto Workers Union.
* 1968 – Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
* 1946 – The United Mine Workers rejoins the American Federation of Labor.
* 1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
In 1935, employees of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company formed their own union called the United Rubber Workers.
Another source of union news is the Workers Independent News, a news organisation providing radio articles to independent and syndicated radio shows in the United States.
In the United States, the New York parade became an annual event that year, and in 1894 was adopted by American president Grover Cleveland to compete with International Workers ' Day ( May Day ).
After the military service, in 1969, he joined the Polish United Workers ' Party ( PZPR ).
Category: Polish United Workers ' Party members
* 1937 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective bargaining agreement with U. S. Steel, leading to unionization of the United States steel industry.
* 1942 – The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.

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