Date: 1983-06-03
Description: Press Release about violence at a rally from far-left organization set-up by the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist to rival the BC Organization to Fight Racism.
Date: 1982-03-10
Description: A pointed speech 'I come to you today as an expert. I have no academic credentials.' Two CFU reps traveled to Toronto to present at a federal task force reviewing Captan and IBT pesticides. See brief submitted 'Farmworkers and Pesticides'.
Date: 1982-08-28
Name(s): Chouhan, Raj
Description: The CFU demands that the WCB immediately adopt California's safety regulations to prevent this type of accident.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports: 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports: 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports: 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports: 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports: 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1990-03-31
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: See two 1990 CFU reports: 'Pesticide Use and Handling in the Fraser Valley Berry Industry', and 'Farmworkers Health Improvement Project'. Photo circa 1990.
Date: 1982-10-30
Name(s): Cavanaugh, Judy, Chouhan, Raj
Description: Jarnail Singh Deol, a 19 year old farmworker, lost his struggle against pesticide poisoning.
Date: 1982-09-05
Description: Handwritten notes about poisoning death of Jarnail Deol and Hamir Singh Grewall.
Date: 1982-08-28
Description: Four people suffered organo-phosphate poisoning. Two seasonal farm workers and two growers. Also, a note attached that Vancouver Sun editor refused to report story as 'CFU is a political group.'
Date: 1982-09-15
Name(s): Sandborn, Calvin
Description: An important pointed brief about the lack of provincial agricultural pesticide regulations. Documents the pesticide death of Hamir Grewal after spraying Parathion in Abbotsford, BC. Details California pesticide laws and sites shortcomings of current BC industrial health and safety regulations. Extensive footnotes. Includes document for new 'Proposed Agricultural Pesticide Regulation'.
Date: 1989-03-06
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan
Description: Presents why CFU should be represented on the new federal regulatory process for pesticides. Overview of pesticide exposure to farmworkers.
Date: 1988-02-02
Name(s): Moses, Marion
Description: An extensive report of USA farmworkers' exposure to pesticides by one of the leading experts on pesticide health and safety issues (a former UFW doctor). The introduction spells out the exclusion of farmworkers from most USA labour laws. The brief presents the chronic effects of pesticides; cancer in humans; cancer in children; birth defects; chronic effects from organo-phospahte pesticides; effects of pesticides on the skin; extensive references.
