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"Easter leaflet" promoting the boycott of Heinz tomato products and the passage of two migrant worker bills, 1969.
Led by House Representative John Tapscott, the bills sought to regulate migrant child labor and improve conditions in Iowa migrant camps.
"March in Support of Migrant Workers," Des Moines Register, March 20, 1969.
Iowa LULAC councils, labor unions, and migrant agencies marched in Des Moines to press for passage of migrant worker bills pending in the Iowa legislature. Fifteen hundred activists marched in Des Moines in March 1969. This type of collective action…