Series 4 - Labour organizing

4 cm of textual records

Series consists of material related to the United Fruit Company’s relationship to labour organizing and unions on their Costa Rican and Panamanian plantations, documenting the ways the company tracked and monitored labour organizing activity among their workers. In particular, the series includes records related to the strikes that took place in 1918, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, including correspondence and lists that name individual labor ‘agitators’ and workers deported as a result of participation in strikes. Also included are letters from or about Serafino Romualdi (1900-1967), Latin American representative of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Assistant Secretary of the Inter-American Regional Organization of Workers (ORIT). Records include correspondence, lists, and newspaper clippings.

Individual documents were placed into files by Bourgois and arranged chronologically within the files by the archivist. Files were grouped into this thematic series by the archivist based on file title assigned by Bourgois.

Restricted to protect the privacy of third parties. Contact the Archives & Special Collections Staff (utml.cds@utoronto.ca) for information about accessing these records.

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See Series 6: Non-thematic Groupings and Series 9: Chronologically Organized Letters which includes other documents that touch upon the same topics, and often include the originating letter or replies to letters found in this series.