Papers of Robert Watson Claiborne [manuscript], 1934-1966.

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Papers of Robert Watson Claiborne [manuscript], 1934-1966.

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The collection consists chiefly of letters from Claiborne to his wife, Virginia Spotswood McKenney Claiborne of Richmond, Va., concerning personal matters and his views on politics, labor activities, agriculture, living conditions and social conditions in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Copies of letters to others and of his official Dept. of Labor correspondence are frequently enclosed in his letters home. Topics include a suffrage case for the Virgin Islands Teachers Association; enforcement of the wage and hour law, resulting conflicts with leaders of needlework, sugar and tobacco industries including a suit by Eastern Sugar Associates and an attempt to exempt Puerto Rico from the Fair Labor Standards Act; cases handled by Claiborne's law firm; conduct and charges that led to his dismissal from the bar; and his agricultural experiments developing a cash crop to replace coffee. The collection also contains a photograph of Robert W. Claiborne, in Maricao, Puerto Rico, 1965, and two postcard photographs of Maricao.

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