“NOTHING SHORT OF A NATIONAL DISGRACE”: The Farm Labor Organizing Committee versus Morgan Packing Company.

The article focuses on the 1976 strike by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) against the Morgan Packing Company in Warren, Indiana, highlighting a significant episode of farmworker activism in the Midwest. Migrant workers, led by FLOC cofounder Baldemar Velásquez, protested poor working and living conditions, demanding fair wages, guaranteed employment, and improved camp conditions. Despite legal challenges and arrests, the strike resulted in key concessions from Morgan Packing, including wage increases, employment guarantees, and a grievance system monitored by the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. This campaign marked a pivotal moment for FLOC's resurgence in labor organizing, setting the stage for later successful unionization efforts with major agricultural companies in the region. The article also situates this struggle within the broader context of Latino civil rights activism and farmworker advocacy in Indiana and the Midwest.