The Finding Aid of the Douglass Adair United Farm Workers Collection 0011

Alexis Adkins
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives
August 2017
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
Business Number: (909) 869-3775
speccollections@cpp.edu


Title: Douglass Adair United Farm Workers Collection
Creator: Adair, Douglas, III
Identifier/Call Number: 0011
Contributing Institution: California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Special Collections and Archives
Language of Material: English, Spanish, and Arabic.
Physical Description: 13.34 Linear Feet (17 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1936, 1956-2015
Date (bulk): 1965-1995
Abstract: Douglass Adair joined the United Farm Workers union in 1965 at the age of 22. He helped organize the nationwide grape boycott and served as editor then publisher of the union's newspaper El Malcriado from 1965 to 1970. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Adair worked in the fields at various California ranches and as a member of the union's legal department. The collection includes correspondence, notes, notebooks, and records documenting Adair's involvement with the union and his employment as a farm worker; clippings and short publications on the union and related topics; and realia, ephemera, and photographs related to the farm workers' rights movement.

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Preferred Citation

[Box/folder# or item name], Douglass Adair United Farm Workers Collection, Collection no. 0011, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Douglass Adair donated the materials to Cal Poly Pomona in installments between 2010 and 2011. He donated additional materials for the collection in 2017.

Biographical / Historical

Douglass Graybill Adair III was born December 10, 1942 in Princeton, New Jersey. His father, Douglass Greybill Adair Jr. was a professor of American history specializing in the revolution and early Jeffersonian period. His mother, Virginia Hamilton Adair, was a noted poet and Professor of English at Cal Poly Pomona. The Adairs moved to California in the 1950s and Douglass graduated from Claremont High School in 1960. He went on to study history at Pomona College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1964.
Adair was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to continue his studies in history at UC Berkeley. He studied Latin American history for a year and maintained his landlady's garden in exchange for free rent. He enjoyed gardening so much that he considered dropping out of school to start a landscaping business. During this period, Adair was also developing an interest in farm labor issues, specifically the recently ended Bracero Program. He joined the Student Committee for Agricultural Labor and participated in a pilot project to send students to work in the fields of central California farms. Adair spent the summer of 1965 picking peaches, plums, and nectarines for the Red Banks Fruit Company in Visalia and lived at the Linell Farm Labor camp in nearby Farmersville.
It was at the camp that Adair first met Gil Padilla of the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). Padilla had come to the camp to organize a rent strike and Adair credits Padilla with "organizing him" and introducing him to the farm workers movement. Soon after meeting Padilla, Adair assisted workers at the labor camp by translating for them and the police during a "wildcat" (unauthorized by the union) strike protesting lowered wages at Exiter Dehydrator. Over the course of the strike, Adair met Cesar Chavez, then leader of the NFWA, and Larry Itliong, leader of the AFL-CIO union Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC). The NFWA and AWOC would merge in August 1966 to form the United Farm Workers (UFW).
Adair was still considering returning to Berkeley at the end of the summer of 1965, when Bill Esher asked him to come to Delano to assist with the English language version of the UFW's newspaper El Malcriado. Cesar Chavez had launched the publication in 1964 and hired Esher in the spring of 1965 to help with production and distribution. Chavez and Esher decided to publish an English version for young Chicanos who did not read Spanish, as well as African Americans and Filipinos interested in the union. Adair arrived in Delano just after the Grape Strike began in September of 1965. The strike would continue for over five years and brought national attention to the farm workers movement.
The UFW immediately enlisted Adair to produce leaflets and copies of El Malcriado advertising the strike. He went on to help organize the strike and by 1966 had become the editor of El Malcriado. The following year, Adair traveled to Texas to assist the union with a melon strike. When he returned to California, he transferred editorial duties for El Malcriado to David Fishlow and served as publisher instead. The union sent Adair out of state again in 1970, this time to Philadelphia to assist with the ongoing grape boycott. He worked in Philadelphia for a year organizing people to pressure grocery chains to carry union grapes. Next, he was sent to St. Louis for eight months to assist with a lettuce boycott.
At this point, Adair wanted to get back to working in the fields. He returned to Delano in December of 1971 and began working at Tenneco-Ducor ranch pruning grapes with his friend Rudy Reyes. Adair worked at Tenneco-Ducor until 1973, when the ranch's contract with the UFW expired and it signed with the Teamsters union instead. That same year, Adair was falsely convicted of damaging a car while picketing at a neighboring ranch. He was jailed for 37 days and placed on probation for two years, the terms of which prohibited him from having any contact with the union.
Adair decided to move back to Claremont for the duration of his probation; both to avoid violating the terms and to help his mother take care of his elderly grandfather. While back home, Adair earned a Master's degree in Public Administration from the Claremont Graduate School. He felt that one of the UFW's weaknesses was its administrative practices and planned to use his degree to help improve them.
After his probation ended in 1975, Adair returned to the union staff as a volunteer. He was quickly assigned to the legal department and worked there for the last half of 1975 through 1977. As a member of the legal department, Adair was in charge of the Coachella office for the election campaigns of 1977 and helped prepare manuals on legal issues for the various field offices. He met his future wife, Debra, in 1976 when she came to the Coachella union clinic as a nurse.
By the end of 1977, Adair was once again ready to return to work in the fields. He was soon hired at David Freedman Company in the Coachella Valley tying grape vines. He joined the Ranch Committee in 1980, which represented the workers to the union leadership and informed the workers of their benefits. As secretary of the Ranch Committee, Adair was involved in contract negotiations between the union and the David Freedman Company.
The United Farm Workers lost the contract with Freedman in 1988. Adair continued working at Freedman for another year until the company sold off most of the ranch and many workers were fired. He decided at that point to work exclusively on the five-acre date farm in Thermal, California that he had purchased in 1977. He continues to grow dates at Pato's Dream Date Garden and is a dues-paying member of the UFW.

Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence sent to and from Douglass Adair; records documenting Adair's involvement with the United Farm Workers union and his employment as a farm worker at California ranches including Tenneco-Ducor and the David Freedman Company; clippings and short publications on the union and related topics; and realia, ephemera, and photographs related to the farm workers rights movement.

Arrangement

The collection is organized into the following series: Series 1. Correspondence; Series 2. Tenneco-Ducor and David Freedman Company; Series 3. United Farm Workers; Series 4. Douglass Adair; Series 5. Clippings and Publications; and Series 6. Realia, Ephemera, and Photographs.

Related Materials

United Farm Workers Ephemera Collection, Collection no. 0006, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.
United Farm Workers News Clippings Collection, Collection no. 0008, Special Collections and Archives, University Library, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Processing Information

The collection was initially processed and cataloged by Special Collections staff 2012. The collection underwent further processing in 2017 by Rodney Cox and James Song to incorporate new accruals. The finding aid was revised the same year by Alexis Adkins to reflect the changes and enhance findability and access. The collection number was changed from SC2012.03 to 0011 and the collection title changed from Douglass Adair's United Farm Workers Collection to Douglass Adair United Farm Workers Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

United Farm Workers
Agricultural laborers--California.
Agricultural laborers--Labor unions
Grape Strike, Calif., 1965-1970

Separated Materials

Barnes, Peter. The Sharing of Land and Resources in America. Washington, DC: New Republic, 1973.
El Malcriado. Delano, CA: Farm Workers Press.
Fishlow, David M. Sons of Zapata: A Brief Photographic History of the Farm Workers Strike in Texas. Rio Grande City, TX: United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO.
Galarza, Ernesto. Strangers in Our Fields. Washington, DC: 1956.
Montoya, Daneen, ed. 1962-1982. Keene, CA: National Farm Workers Service Center, 1982.
Zermeno, Andrew. Don Sotaco: Cartoons from the Delano Strike/Caricaturas de la Huelga de Delano. Delano, CA: Farm Worker Press.

box 1, 11

Series 1: Correspondence 1965-1983, 1996-2011

Scope and Contents

The series includes correspondence sent to and from Douglass Adair. The series also includes print-outs of emails.

Arrangement

The series is arranged chronologically by file date. Undated correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
box 1, folder 1

Letter from Hubert H. Humphrey 1965 April 22

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box 1, folder 2

Letter to Douglass Adair's Family 1965 June 27

box 1, folder 3

Letter to Douglass Adair's Family 1967 September 15

box 1, folder 4

Letter to Douglass Adair's Family 1967 November 8

box 1, folder 5

Letter to Douglass Adair's Family 1967 November 17

box 1, folder 6

Letter from Georgenia Irwin (Mrs. Paul) 1968 October 24

box 1, folder 7

Letter from "D" of the UFW Organizing Committee in Texas 1970 December 1

box 1, folder 8

Letter from Sebastian Sahagun 1970 December 2

box 1, folder 9

Letter to Virginia Hamilton Adair 1971 August 6

box 1, folder 10

Letter to Pepe and Ben 1972 August 16

box 1, folder 11

Letter to Tulare County Probation Department 1973 January 2

box 1, folder 12

Letter to Ruth Shy, UFWOC 1973 May 26

box 1, folder 13

Letter to the Center for Rural Studies 1973 June 15

box 1, folder 14

Letter to the Arabian American Oil Company 1973 August 10

box 1, folder 15

Letter to John 1973 August 15

box 1, folder 16

Letter to Jack 1973 September 30

box 1, folder 17

Letter to the Editors of The Los Angeles Times 1973 October 12

box 1, folder 18

Letter to Mr. Somera 1973 October 15

box 1, folder 19

Letter to UFW La Paz 1974 January 2

box 1, folder 20

Letter from Sebastian Sahagun 1974 January 17

box 1, folder 21

Letter to Dr. John Gleason 1974 April 15

box 1, folder 22

Letter from Ruth Harmer 1974 July 5

box 1, folder 23

Letter from Curtis L. Summers 1974 August 15

box 1, folder 24

Letter from Jim Lloyd 1974 November 8

box 1, folder 25

Letter to Deborah A. Vollmer 1974 December 19

box 1, folder 26

Letter from David M. Held 1974 December 20

box 1, folder 27

Letter to J.C. Powell from Deborah A. Vollmer 1974 December 21

box 1, folder 28

Letter from David M. Held 1975 January 14

box 1, folder 29

Letter from Jerry Apodaca, Governor of New Mexico 1975 January 24

box 1, folder 30

Letter to Jerry Apodaca, Governor of New Mexico 1975 February 1

box 1, folder 31

Letter from Chacon-Romero Defense Fund 1975 February 2

box 1, folder 32

Letter to Congressman Jim Lloyd 1975 February 5

box 1, folder 33

Letter to Dr. Robert G. Kramer 1975 February 6

box 1, folder 34

Letter from Harry V. Jaffa 1975 February 10

box 1, folder 35

Letter to Dr. Al Schwartz 1975 February 13

 

Letter to Claremont Graduate University on Petition Against Non-Union Lettuce 1975 February 13

box 1, folder 36

Letter from Jerome Cohen 1975 February 17

box 1, folder 37

Letter from Congressman Jim Lloyd 1975 February 17

box 1, folder 38

Letter from Deborah A. Vollmer 1975 March 5

box 1, folder 39

Letter from Congressman Jim Lloyd 1975 March 11

box 1, folder 40

Letter to Cesar Chavez 1975 April 2

box 1, folder 41

Letter from Cesar Chavez 1975 April 10

box 1, folder 42

Letter to Dr. Knox Mellon 1975 April 20

box 1, folder 43

Letter to El Macriado 1975 June 30

box 1, folder 44

Letter from Jerome Cohen 1975 July 5

box 1, folder 45

Letter to Cres Fraley 1975 July 10

box 1, folder 46

Letter from Cres Fraley 1975 July 26

box 1, folder 47

Letter from Cesar Chavez 1975 August 29

box 1, folder 48

Letter to Mr. Rudy Ahumada 1975 October

box 1, folder 49

Letter to Ibrahim el Hamdi, President of the Yemen Arab Republic 1975 October 4

box 1, folder 50

Letter to Chacon-Romero Defense Fund circa 1975

box 1, folder 51

Letter to Unidentified Recepient circa 1975

Scope and Contents

Page(s) are missing.
box 1, folder 52

Letter to the Editors of The Los Angeles Times 1976 February 16

 

Letter to Jim and Brothers 1976 February 18

box 1, folder 53

Letter to the Organizing Task Force 1976 February 22

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies.
 

Letter to Dr. Lucien Marquis 1976 May 1

box 1, folder 54

Letter to Coachella Legal Group from Calexico Legal Group 1977 June 25

box 1, folder 55

Memo from Cesar Chavez and Douglass Adair's Reply 1977 July 13

box 1, folder 56

Letters to and from Ole Anderson, E&A Corporation 1978 January-April

box 1, folder 57

Letter from Carlos Ortiz 1978 May 11

box 1, folder 58

Letter to Ruth Shy 1979 July 30

box 1, folder 59

Letter to David Burciaga of UFW Department of Negotiations 1980 April 21

box 1, folder 60

Letter to Kent Winterrode 1980 May 27

Scope and Contents

Winterrode was the administrator for the United Farm Workers Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan.
box 1, folder 61

Letter to David Burciaga of UFW Department of Negotiations 1980 May 29

box 1, folder 62

Letter to Michelle Prichard of the Citizen's Party 1980 July 25

box 1, folder 63

Letter to William (Billy) Steinberg of David Freedman Co./Travertine Vineyards Associates from the Ranch Committee 1980 November 15

box 1, folder 64

Letter to William (Billy) Steinberg 1980 December 2

box 1, folder 65

Letter to William (Billy) Steinberg 1980 December 6

box 1, folder 66

Letter to Jessica Govea 1981 March 19

box 1, folder 67

Letter to Pete Velasco 1981 June 20

box 1, folder 68

Letter to Lionel Steinberg 1982 February 7

box 1, folder 69

Letter to Sandy Bonner 1982 November 01

box 1, folder 70

Letter to Douglass and Debbie Adair from Cesar Chavez 1983 January 19

box 1, folder 71

Email to Artie 1996 January 17

box 1, folder 72

Letters to and from Dr. Kent Kirkton and Dr. Jorge Garcia, California State University, Northridge 1996 February-March

box 1, folder 73

Letter from Andy Imutan 2004 June 5

box 1, folder 74

List Serve Discussion 2004 July

box 1, folder 75

Letter from Douglass Adair to Unidentified Recepient circa 2004

box 1, folder 76

Email to "Brothers and Sisters" 2005 March 8

Scope and Contents

Includes copy of a letter from Rudy Reyes to Leroy dated April 6, 2004.
box 1, folder 77

Email to Lindon Anderson, HMS Agricultural Corporation 2006 January 20

box 1, folder 78

Emails to Hilario Torres and Joe Mota, United Farm Workers 2006 January 27

box 1, folder 79

Email to Frank 2009 March 15

box 1, folder 80

Email to Artie before 2011

box 1, folder 81

Letter to William (Billy) Steinberg before 2011

box 1, folder 82

Letter to Douglass Adair from Harriet before 2011

box 1, folder 83

Letters to Douglass Adair's Family before 2011

box 1, folder 84

Letter from Humberto Luna before 2011

box 1, folder 85

Letter to Liz and Wallie Taylor before 2011

box 1, folder 86

Letter to Saul Martinez before 2011

box 1, folder 87

Letter to the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO before 2011

box 2-5, 11

Series 2: Tenneco-Ducor and David Freedman Company 1972-1986

Scope and Contents

The Tenneco-Ducor farm was established near Delano, California when Tenneco Farming Company, part of the Tenneco Oil Company, purchased the Divizich Ranch. Douglass Adair worked at Tenneco-Ducor from approximately 1971-1973 pruning and thining grape vines.
After a hiatus from farm work, Adair began working at David Freedman Company in 1978. The Freedman Company was one of the largest grape growers in the Coachella Valley. Adair served as secretary of the workers' Ranch Committee.
The series includes collective bargaining agreements, grievances, Adair's notes and notebooks from his work as Ranch Committee secretary, and files Adair maintained on other workers at Tenneco-Ducor and David Freedman Company as part of his work as secretary.

Arrangement

The series is arranged into four subseries: 2.1. Collective Bargaining Agreements; 2.2. Grievances; 2.3. Notebooks and Notes; and 2.4. Workers.
box 2, 11

Subseries 2.1: Collective Bargaining Agreements 1977-1986

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains collective bargaining agreements and related documents. Douglass Adair's notes on contract negotiations are in Subseries 2.3. Notebooks and Notes.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
box 2, folder 1

Tenneco West, Cal Date Formal and Informal Document List 1977

box 2, folder 2

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between David Freedman Company and UFW (English) 1977 June

box 2, folder 3

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between David Freedman Company and UFW (Spanish) 1977 June

Scope and Contents

Contains two copies.
box 2, folder 4

Copy of Labor Agreement Between Sun Harvest Inc. and UFW for Freedman Ranch Committee 1979 September 4

box 2, folder 5

Labor Contract Proposal 1980 May 11

Scope and Contents

Contains a letter from Douglass Adair to David Burciaga, Director of Negotitions at the UFW, with proposals attached.
box 2, folder 6

Supplemental Letter of Understanding 1980 June

box 2, folder 7-8

Ranch Committee Negotiations Proposals and Counters 1980 June

 

Ranch Committee Negotiations Proposals 1980

box 2, folder 9

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between David Freedman Company and UFW 1980

box 2, folder 10

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates and UFW 1982

box 2, folder 11

Bargaining Agreement Proposals from David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates 1982 June 17

box 2, folder 12

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates and UFW (English) 1984 June

box 2, folder 13

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates and UFW (Spanish) 1984 June

box 2, folder 14

Contract Proposals 1986

box 3

Subseries 2.2: Grievances 1977-1982

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains grievances filed against the David Freedman Company by the United Farm Workers and related documents.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
box 3, folder 1

Grievances: F-23-77, F-29-77, F-48-77, F-46-77 1977 November 28

box 3, folder 2

Filed Grievances 1979 January - 1979 March

box 3, folder 3

Grievance: F-12-79 1979 April 7

box 3, folder 4

Grievance: 1981-F-1 1981 January 11

box 3, folder 5

Grievance Meeting: 82-FI-07 1982 July 27

box 3, folder 6

Grievance: 82-FI-08 1982

box 3, folder 7

Grievance: FI-82-11 1982 November 12

box 3-4, 11

Subseries 2.3: Notebooks and Notes 1972-1986, undated

Scope and Contents

The subseries includes notebooks, notes, and files created by Douglass Adair in his role as secretary for the Ranch Committee.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
box 3, folder 8

Tenneco Journal 1972

box 3, folder 9

Meeting of Camp #1, Tenneco-Ducor Ranch 1972 January 10

box 3, folder 10

Meeting of the Camp and Grievance Committee 1972 February 10

box 3, folder 11

Meeting of the UFWOC Grievance Committee, Tenneco-Ducor Ranch 1972 January 15

 

Lee Shaw Disposition 1976

box 3, folder 12

Ranch Committee Notebook 1976 December - 1977 March

box 3, folder 13

Ranch Committee Notebook 1977 March - 1977 June

box 3, folder 14

Ranch Committee Notebook 1977 July - 1977 December

box 3, folder 15

Ranch Committee Notebook 1979 April

box 3, folder 16

Ranch Committee Notebook 1979 April - 1980 June

box 3, folder 17

Draft Notes on Article Amendments 1980 April - 1980 May

Scope and Contents

Contains drafts of contract articles with annotations.
box 3, folder 18

Ranch Committee Meeting Notes and Grievances 1980 July 23

box 3, folder 19

Meeting Notes 1980 October 1

box 3, folder 20

Ranch Committee Notes 1980 December 17

box 3, folder 21

Notes on Juan de la Cruz Pension Plan 1980

box 3, folder 22-23

Ranch Committee Leaflets 1979-1980, 1986

Scope and Contents

Includes flyers on negotiation updates distributed by the Ranch Committee to workers.
box 4, folder 1

Ranch Committee Notes 1981

box 4, folder 2

Notes on Wages 1982 June 17

box 4, folder 3

Ranch Committee Notes 1982 January 25

box 4, folder 4

Ranch Committee Notebook 1982 July

box 4, folder 5

Ranch Committee Notebook 1985 September 10 - 1986 April 25

box 4, folder 6

David Freedman Company Negotiations Notebook 1986 March 14 - June 3

box 4, folder 7

David Freedman Company Negotiations Notebook 1986 June 9 - December 1

box 4, folder 8

David Freedman Company Negotiations Notes 1986 May

box 4, folder 9

Negotiation Notes and Summaries 1986 June

box 4, folder 10

David Freedman Company Background and Statistics 1986

box 4, folder 11

Freedman Committee Address List 1986

box 4, folder 12

Notes About Union Medical Insurance before 1986

box 4, folder 13

Notes About the Union Contract before 1986

 

Notes on Discrimination before 1986

box 4, folder 14

Timeline before 1986

box 4, folder 15-18

Assorted Notes before 1986

box 4-5, 11

Subseries 2.4: Workers 1972-1982

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains files Douglass Adair maintained on other workers at Tenneco-Ducor and David Freedman Company as part of his work as secretary.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically.
 

Tenneco-Ducor Ranch Seniority List 1972

Scope and Contents

Includes photocopies.
 

Memo to Tenneco Committee and UFWOC Contract Enforcement 1972 June 27

box 4, folder 19

Division of Labor Law Enforcement Complaints Hearing Notice 1972

box 4, folder 20

Steward's Report: Firing of David Soto 1978 June 16

box 4, folder 21

David Freedman Company/ Travertine Vineyards, Vineyard Repair Additions to Seniority 1979 May

box 4, folder 22

Crew List 1979 April 7

box 4, folder 23

Union Nominations for David Freedman Company Handout 1980 January 12

box 4, folder 24

David Freedman Company Thinning Seniority 1979 Lay Off 1980 February

box 4, folder 25

Douglass Adair Seniority Standing 1980 February

box 4, folder 26

Crew of Lupe Acosta, David Freedman Company 1980 March 24

box 4, folder 27

David Freedman Company, Perlette Thinning Lay-Off 1980 March 27

box 4, folder 28

David Freedman Company Call List 1980 May 1

box 4, folder 29

David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates Agreement with UFW 1980 June 11

box 4, folder 30

Declaration of Douglass Adair 1980 June 11

box 4, folder 31

David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates Company-Wide Seniority 1980 June

box 4, folder 32

Declaration of Douglass Adair (Lupe Acosta) 1980 July 4

box 4, folder 33

David Freedman Company, Travertine Vineyard Associates Company-Wide Seniority 1980 September

box 4, folder 34

Review of Vineyard Repair Work (August 1980) 1980 October 1

box 4, folder 35

Israeli Workers Seniority 1981 January

box 4, folder 36

David Freedman Company Wage and Benefits Breakdown Handout 1982 June 17

box 4, folder 37

David Freedman Company Company-Wide Seniority 1982 June 26

box 4, folder 38

Wages and Benefits 1982 June

box 5, folder 1

Freedman Company,Travertine Ranch Community Meeting 1982 July 7

box 5, folder 2

Ezekiel Velez's Pay Stub and Pay Check 1982 September 21

box 5, folder 4

Questions for Ezekiel Velez undated

box 5, folder 3

List of Workers 1982 September 28

box 5, folder 5

Remedy Sought for Mr. Isidro Alonso undated

box 5, folder 6

Worker Seniority List, David Freedman Company undated

box 5, folder 7

Crew List of Lupe Acosta's Crew, By Cars undated

box 5, folder 8

Work Year at Freedman Under Revised Seniority Proposal undated

box 5, folder 9

Workers Seniority Notes undated

box 5, folder 10

Freedman Company, Travertine Seniority List Notes undated

box 5-6, 11-12, 17

Series 3: United Farm Workers 1967-1988, 1999-2015

Scope and Contents

The series includes materials documenting the United Farm Workers' constitutional conventions and legal department, newsletters produced by the union, and other materials related to the union and its activities.

Arrangement

The series is arranged into four subseries: 3.1. Constitutional Conventions; 3.2. Legal Department; 3.3. Newsletters; and 3.4. Other Materials.
box 5, 12, 17

Subseries 3.1: Constitutional Conventions 1973-1981, 2012

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains materials from United Farm Workers constitutional conventions.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
box 5, folder 11

Constitution Adopted at the First UFW AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention (English) 1973

box 5, folder 12

UFW AFL-CIO Third Constitutional Convention 1977

box 5, folder 13

Minutes of the Fourth UFW AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention (Spanish) 1979

box 5, folder 14

Constitution Adopted at the First UFW AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention with 1977, 1979, and 1981 Amendments (Spanish) 1981

box 5, folder 15-16

UFW AFL-CIO Fifth Constitutional Convention 1981 September

 

Portfolio for United Farm Workers Fifth Constitutional Convention 1981

 

United Farmworkers 19th Constitutional Convention 2012

Scope and Contents

Includes binder, convention program, attendee badge, delegate pin, and ribbon.
box 5-6, 11

Subseries 3.2: Legal Department 1973-1977

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains files and notebooks created by Douglass Adair as part of his work for the United Farm Workers' Legal Department.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
box 5, folder 17

Research File for Lawsuit Against Teamsters 1973

box 5, folder 18

Delano Elections and Legal Department 1975

box 5, folder 19

Imperial Legal Department Notebook 1975-1976

box 6, folder 1

Legal Department Notebook 1976

 

Notes on "Billboarding" circa 1976

box 6, folder 2

Coachella Legal Department Notebook, Pre-Election 1977

box 6, folder 3

Coachella Legal Department Notebook, Election 1977

 

Coachella Legal Department Election Campaign Notes 1977

 

Subseries 3.3: Newsletters 1967-2011

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains newsletters and memos produced and distributed by the United Farm Workers to publicize their activities.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
 

Delano Newsletter 1967 April 25

 

Rio Grande News #12 1967 July 25

 

Rio Grande, Texas Farm Workers Newsletters circa 1968

 

St. Louis, What's Ahead: News of the Lettuce Boycott 1971 May

 

St. Louis, UFW Benefit for the Legal Defense Fund 1971

 

St. Louis, What's Ahead: News of the Lettuce Boycott 1972 January

 

St. Louis, What's Ahead: News of the Lettuce Boycott 1972 March

 

St. Louis, What's Ahead: News of the Lettuce Boycott (Special Emergency Issue) 1972 March

 

St. Louis, What's Ahead: News of the Lettuce Boycott 1972 July

 

St. Louis, Chronology of Lettuce Struggle 1973 March

 

UFW Carta Administrativa 1981 May 30

 

Delano Grapevine before 2011

box 6, 11

Subseries 3.4: Other Materials 1970-2015

Scope and Contents

The subseries includes materials about the United Farm Workers union and its activities.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically by file date.
box 6, folder 4

List of Union Label Grapes 1970 July 19

box 6, folder 5

Agreement Between the UFW and Nick Bozanich Jr.; Jake J. Cesare and Sons; Sam Barbic; and Jack or Marion J. Radovich 1972 August 16

box 6, folder 6

The Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan 1972-1982

 

The United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO 1974 May 27

box 6, folder 7

Election Campaigns Coachella Valley 1976-1977

box 6, folder 8

Petition List 1980 May 26

box 6, folder 9

UFW, AFL-CIO 25th Anniversary Benefit Program 1987

box 6, folder 10

"Fast For Life!" Booklet 1988

box 6, folder 11

Collective Bargaining Agreement Between UFW AFL-CIO and H.M.S. Agricultural Corporation 1999

box 6, folder 12

Miriam Pawel's Los Angeles Times Series 2006 January

box 6, folder 13

Memorandum to the Los Angeles Times from the UFW in Response to Miriam Pawel's Articles 2006 January 27

box 6, folder 14

50th Anniversary of the Delano Grape Strike Program 2015

box 6, folder 15

Letterhead for the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee AFL-CIO before 2015

box 6, folder 16

Rodrigo Terronez Memorial Clinic before 2015

box 6, folder 17

Sanchez-Caswell Memorial Clinic before 2015

 

Giumarra Vineyards Boycott before 2015

 

Song Lyrics before 2015

box 7-8, 11, 13

Series 4: Douglass Adair 1965-2011

Scope and Contents

The series includes notes by Douglass Adair that are unrelated to other series, Adair's identification cards, pay stubs and other financial records, records relating to his arrest and probation, oral history transcripts, and other personal papers.

Arrangement

The series is arranged chronologically by file date in the finding aid but does not reflect physical arrangement.
box 8, folder 7-12

Articles and Texts By or About Douglass Adair 1965-1977, 2001

Scope and Contents

Includes copies and clippings of articles and letters to the editor written by or about Douglass Adair and published in The Texas Observer, The Catholic Worker, Liberation, Claremont Courier.
Includes photocopies of pages from Un-American Activities in California that mention Douglass Adair and a photocopy of the poem "The Dark Hole" by Adair's mother, Virginia Hamilton Adair.
 

Student Committee on Agricultural Labor Rally Flyer with Notes 1965

box 7, folder 1

Tulare County Community Development Project by David Havens 1965

box 7, folder 2

Notes on the Rio Grande City, Texas Strike 1967

 

Newsletter from Dr. Ben Yellen, Brawley, Calif. 1967

 

Tenneco Stock Certificate Awarded to Douglass Adair 1968 February 16

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies.
box 7, folder 3

United Farm Workers Organizing Committee Card 1968

box 7, folder 4

St. Louis Notes 1971

box 7, folder 5

Douglass Adair's UFW Identification Cards 1972-1978

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies.
box 7, folder 6

Pay Stubs 1973

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopies.
box 7, folder 7

Statement of Douglass Adair on the Events of January 27, 1973 1973

box 7, folder 8

Personal Money Orders 1973-1976

 

Probation Files 1975 January 22

 

Maggio Tostado Contract Ratification 1977 February 2

box 7, folder 9

Alternate Card and Credential for Third United Farm Workers Constitutional Convention 1977

box 7, folder 10

Credential for Fourth United Farm Workers Constitutional Convention 1979

box 7, folder 11

Wage and Tax Statement 1981

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopy.
box 7, folder 12

Farm Workers Credit Union Pass Book Audit 1981

box 7, folder 13

David Freedman & Co. Employee ID Card 1988

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopy.
box 7, folder 14

Juan de la Cruz Farm Workers Pension Fund 1990, 2008

Scope and Contents

Includes photocopy.
box 7, folder 15

Memorial Celebration for Fred W. Ross 1992

box 7, folder 16

Bill Esher (Rampujan) Memoir on the Origins of El Malcriado 1994, 2010

box 7, folder 17

Oral History Transcript: Douglass Adair interviewed by Greg Turex of CSU Northridge 1995 March 10

box 7, folder 18

Oral History Transcript: Douglass Adair Interviewed by Carlos Guerrero of CSU Northridge 1995 March 23

box 7, folder 19

Oral History Transcript: Bill Chandler at CSU Northridge 1995 March 11

box 7, folder 20

Oral History Transcript: Luis Valdez at CSU Monterey Bay 1995 June 5

box 7, folder 21

Notes for Oral History Interview 1995

box 7, folder 22

Funeral Service for James Lynn Drake 2001 October 6

box 7, folder 23

"Braceros Speak: A Contract Labor System in Theory and Practice" by Henry P. Anderson circa 2001

Scope and Contents

Contains copy of a paper presented at the Twenty-Third Annual North American Labor History Conference, October 19, 2001.
box 7, folder 24

Jessica Govea Memorial Program CD-ROM 2005 September

box 7, folder 25

40th Anniversary Reunion "La Huelga," Rio Grande City, Texas 2006 October 29

box 7, folder 26

Douglass Adair's Notes on the Origins of El Malcriado 2009

box 8, folder 1

Draft of a Letter to the Editor of The Atlantic 2011

Scope and Contents

Letter is in regards to an article on Cesar Chavez. Includes copy of the issue in which the article was published.
box 8, folder 2

Ricardo Estrada Chavez Memorial Program 2011

box 8, folder 3

Farm Workers Selected Bibliography-Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan before 2011

box 8, folder 4

Robert F. Kennedy Farm Workers Medical Plan Identification Card before 2011

Scope and Contents

Contains photocopy.
box 8, folder 5

Notes on the ALRB before 2011

box 8, folder 6

Notes on the 1981 United Farm Workers Convention, Fresno before 2011

Scope and Contents

Notes for an interview with Douglass Adair by Sam Kushner for the radio station KPFA.
box 8, folder 13

Photocopies from the Labor Relations Reference Manual before 2011

box 8-9, 13

Series 5: Clippings and Publications 1936, 1956-2014

Scope and Contents

The series includes clippings from and complete issues of publications including Agricultural Life, Bakersfield Californian, Catholic Worker, Claremont Courier, Coachella Valley Sun, Corpus Christi Caller, Daily News (Indio, Calif.), Fresno Bee, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, New Republic, The Progressive, Ramparts, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and Steel Labor.
Includes photocopies.

Arrangement

The series is arranged into two subseries: 5.1. Publications and 5.2. Clippings.
box 8

Subseries 5.1: Publications 1956-2011

Scope and Contents

The subseries includes short publications on farm workers and related topics. Longer publications were separated from the archive and can be found in the Library catalog by searching for "Douglass Adair United Farm Workers Collection."

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronologically.
box 8, folder 14

Mexican Workers for Employers of Contracted Mexican Workers in U.S. Agriculture 1956

box 8, folder 15

Report on Bracero Feeding Standards: Including Code for Foreign Labor Associates 1957 April 26

box 8, folder 16

UAW Washington Report 1967 July 10

box 8, folder 17

The Chemical State 1981

box 8, folder 18

Cesar Chavez Special Resource Study Newsletter 2011

box 8, folder 19

Coordinating Committee on Pesticides before 2011

box 8-9, 13

Subseries 5.2: Clippings 1936, 1957-2014

Scope and Contents

The subseries includes clippings about the United Farm Workers and related topics.

Arrangement

The subseries is arranged chronolgically by file date in the finding aid but does not reflect physical arrangement.
 

Clippings - Oversize 1936

box 8, folder 20

Clippings 1957

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence from Douglass Greybill Adair to the U.S. Section of the Joint Trades Union Committee and Agricultural Life about the report Strangers in Our Fields.
box 8, folder 21

Clippings 1961

box 8, folder 22

Clippings 1962

box 8, folder 23

Clippings 1965

box 8, folder 24-25

Clippings 1966

 

Clippings - Oversize 1966-1986

box 8, folder 26-27

Clippings 1967

box 9, folder 1

Clippings 1969

box 9, folder 2

Clippings 1970

box 9, folder 3

Clippings 1971

box 9, folder 4

Clippings 1972

box 9, folder 5

Clippings 1973

box 9, folder 6

Clippings 1974

box 9, folder 7

Clippings 1975

box 9, folder 8

Clippings 1976

box 9, folder 9

Clippings 1977

box 9, folder 10

Clippings 1978

box 9, folder 11

Clippings 1979

box 9, folder 12

Clippings 1980

box 9, folder 13-14

Clippings 1981

box 9, folder 15

Clippings 1985

box 9, folder 16

Clippings 1988

 

Clippings - Oversize 1993

box 9, folder 17

Clippings 1995

box 9, folder 18

Clippings 1996

box 9, folder 19

Clippings 1999

 

Clippings - Oversize 2004-2014

box 9, folder 20

Clippings 2005

box 9, folder 21

Clippings 2006

box 9, folder 22

Clippings before 2011

box 10-11, 14-17

Series 6: Realia, Ephemera, and Photographs 1966-1985, 2003, undated

Scope and Contents

The series includes flags, posters, flyers, stickers, grape crate ends, and photographs.

Arrangement

The series is arranged alphabetically by file title.
box 10, folder 1

Bumper Sticker - "Boycott Gallo" before 2011

 

Bumper Sticker: UFW before 2011

 

Calendar: Mexican Graphic Arts 1969

Scope and Contents

Calendar features images reproduces from El Malcriado.
box 10, folder 2

Coffee Can Labels: "Farm Worker Initiative...Guarantee Free Elections" undated

box 10, folder 3

Drawing undated

 

Flag: Tenneco Camp #1 undated

 

Flag: Coachella 1978

Scope and Contents

Flag includes inscriptions for Debbie Adair.
 

Flag: Rudy Reyes undated

box 10, folder 4-6

Flyers circa 1975-1985

Scope and Contents

Includes Arabic language flyers.
 

Flyers, Oversize undated

box 10, folder 7

Folio undated

Scope and Contents

Contains Cal Poly Pomona Lesson Plan folio.
box 10, folder 8

Postcard: Cesar Chavez 2003

box 10, folder 9

Postcard and DVD Insert: Farmworker Movement Documentation Project 2005

box 10, folder 10

Postcard: Trabajamos We Work/Exhibition 2017

 

Grape Crate End: David Freedman and Co. undated

 

Grape Crate End: Di Giorgio Farms undated

box 10, folder 11

Photograph: Barry Quilindren 1968

box 10, folder 12

Photograph: Cesar Chavez undated

box 10, folder 13

Photograph: Cesar Chavez with Children undated

box 10, folder 14

Photograph: Filipino Workers undated

Scope and Contents

Photograph is of Barry Quilindren, Sebastian Sahgun, and Fred Abad.
box 10, folder 15

Photograph: Schenley Ranch Skit undated

Scope and Contents

Contains contact sheet.
 

Photograph: Worker in Field undated

 

Poster: "El Theatro Campesino Giant Delano Strike Benefit" 1966

 

Poster: "¡Nosotros Venceremos! Premiere de Cine sobre la Huelga" 1971

 

Poster: "Cesar Chavez Marcha Para Unir El Valle" 1977

Scope and Contents

Contains two posters.
 

Posters: Portraits of Cesar Chavez and Emiliano Zapata 1973 May 4

Scope and Contents

Posters are pages from El Malcriado.
box 10, folder 16

Poster, Small: "Huelga" undated

 

Pins undated

box 10, folder 17

Ribbon "Comite" undated

 

Roll of Stickers "Boycott Gallo! Boycott Grapes!" undated

box 10, folder 18

Stickers "Don't Buy Red Coach Lettuce" undated