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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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.
Clippings - Oversize
1966-1986
Clippings - Oversize
1993
Clippings - Oversize
2004-2014
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
Flag: Tenneco Camp #1
undated
Flag: Coachella
1978
Scope and Contents
Flag includes inscriptions for Debbie Adair.
box 10, folder 4-6
Flyers
circa 1975-1985
Scope and Contents
Includes Arabic language flyers.
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
Roll of Stickers "Boycott Gallo! Boycott Grapes!"
undated
box 10, folder 18
Stickers "Don't Buy Red Coach Lettuce"
undated