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P. 233 “Forming a rump group, eighteen tiny field workers’ locals, some within AFL, and others composed of independent racial groups, convened at Bakersfield in late April 1937 and emerged from their conferences with a State Federation of Agricultural Cannery Unions. In July, these groups threw in their lot with the CIO and met with locals from other states in the first national convention of field workers at Denver, Colorado. Out of this conference came the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA).”