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To Jack Livingston, AFL-CIO Department of Organization, and Norman Smith, AFL-CIO Organizer, May 5, 1959 When Galarza wrote this letter, he had just been put on the AFL-CIO payroll as assistant director of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). Livingston was head of the national AFL-CIO Department of Organization. This was the first time Galarza had had to deal directly with the bureaucratized labor movement. During most of his years with the National Farm Labor Union (later the National Agricultural Workers Union), he basically had to make do with his salary (much of the time $125 a month), sometimes getting money for gasoline and other expenses if and when H. L. Mitchell could pry some loose from the National Sharecroppers Fund. Jack Livingston was one of the founders of the United Autoworkers (1933) and served in high-ranking leadership positions in the UAW until 1955. He then moved on to become the first director of organization for the newly formed AFL-CIO. Norman Smith was a rank-and-file union organizer in the auto industry from 1936 to 1942. He was recruited by Livingston and sent on behalf of the AFL-CIO to assist Galarza’s farmworker organizer efforts. Smith was eventually appointed as the first director of AWOC. May 5, 1959 To: Jack Livingston Norman Smith To clarify a number of questions on reports and expenses: 1. Is there a special voucher or form to report public transportation (buses and trains don’t extend receipts)? 2.Some of my mileage will have to be reported as use of my 1953 Ford. A 1959 Chevy is unhandy for driving in and out to camps and ranches at odd hours to make contacts. The official car is fine for city trips or nonfarm calls. Is this agreeable? 272 part 6. letters from an activist 3. Because of the peculiarities of our work some interesting information and useful contacts can best be obtained on Saturday nights and Sundays. These activities do not represent a full day’s work so I will report them simply for your information but not for the purpose of expenses. Only in case of full time required activity will expenses be noted. 4.Telephone and telegrams: I have all union costs of this kind charged to my home phone in order to have a record of transactions. These are billed to me once a month. Will run about $20.00 a month or so. Is the monthly statement to be submitted to Washington? Is it covered by per diem? Do I send it to Norman Smith? 5. Postage: I average about 40 letters a week on union business and an additional average of ten pieces of other mail (usually requests for Union literature, releases, etc.) My postage expenses will run around $3.00 a week. Do I send PO receipts to Washington or Norman Smith? 6.I make out three report sheets—white, green and blue. The green and the blue were returned to me with corrections on my first report. What do I send to Washington? What do I keep? E. Galarza ...

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