J. J. Rodriguez – Labor Leader and Latino Community Activist
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J.J. presented actresses Ida Lupino and Eileen Siedman with community service awards.Anniversary honors
J.J. and Andrea Rodriguez receive a congratulatory plaque for their 50th wedding anniversary from Rep. Edward Roybal, left, and Rep. Marty Martinez. The two legislators entered the plaque in the Congressional Record.SOME HELP FROM SEN. ROBERT F. KENNEDY At rally (from left): Rep. George E. Brown, Sen. Kennedy, Gov. Brown and J.J. RodriguezSTOP Arthritis telethon phone bankCONGRATULATIONS-W. J. Bassett, executive secretary of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, congratulates J. J. Rodriguez, executive secretary of Butchers’ Union Local 563, on the $250,000 jobless pay windfall the union won for 1,600 members as a result of a lockout in the meat packing industry in 1961.New Fed president..
Sigmund Arywitz, left, executive secretary af the County Federation of Labor, extends the arm of J.J. Rodriguez in Victory after his election as Federation president Monday.Together, we have led the fight to increase the minimum hourly wage. We will continue in our efforts to have the Federal law extended to cover the millions of American workers who are presently excluded. There are still too many who earn less than the $1.60 per hour minimum wage.
Together we supported an equitable Federal program to stabilize the economy through a fair and impartial method of controlling prices, wages and all other farms of income.
Together we strongly oppose the Nixon plan which unfairly freezes wages while, on the other hand, consumer prices and corporation profits have gone sky-high.Voicing La Causa …
Beatrice Morales, a field hand for 23 years, takes a respite from the United Farm Workers’ picket line at Lamont in Kern County to describe the plight of strikers to J. J. Rodriguez, left, president of the County Federation of Labor, and Sigmund Arywitz, Federation executive secretary, during their visit of the vineyards last week.
