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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives
Title: Joseph G. Brosmer Collection
Creator:
Brosmer, Joseph G.
Identifier/Call Number: URB.JGB
Extent:
3.77 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1948-1996
Date (bulk): 1961-1973
Abstract: The
Joseph G.
Brosmer Collection
documents pro-grower, anti-union activities in the agricultural
industry, primarily in the state of California during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The
types of documents include personal correspondence with growers and other consultants,
copies of labor contracts and collective bargaining agreements, anti-union newsletters,
notes from grievance meetings, transcripts of court testimony, arbitration case documents,
and related records.
Language of Material: English
Joseph Gordon Brosmer was born in Norwich, Chenango County, New York on October 17, 1918 to
parents, Leon and Helen. Brosmer spent his childhood in New York, then came west to
California sometime after 1939.
Brosmer is best known for his work as manager of the Agricultural Labor Bureau and
consultant to commercial growers in the state of California during the late 1960s and early
1970s. Brosmer appears on the scene in California's Central Valley, the San Joaquin Valley,
during the latter days of union activity by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee,
AFL (AWOC) and the emerging United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC). Brosmer and
the Agricultural Labor Bureau coordinated the response of California growers to the efforts
of the unions to obtain collective bargaining agreements.
Brosmer passed away on July 19, 2008 at age 89, in Clovis, California.
The
Joseph G. Brosmer Collection documents pro-grower,
anti-union activities in the agricultural industry, primarily in the state of California
during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The types of documents include personal
correspondence with growers and other consultants, copies of labor contracts and collective
bargaining agreements, anti-union newsletters, notes from grievance meetings, transcripts of
court testimony, arbitration case documents, and related records. The Collection is divided
into two series:
Growers and Affiliated Organizations (1949-1996)
and
Agricultural Workers Unions and Affiliated Organizations
(1948-1973).
Series I,
Growers and Affiliated Organizations, consists
primarily of Brosmer's consultant case files, including major growers such as DiGiorgio
Fruit Corporation, E & J Gallo Winery Ranch, Mont La Salle Vineyards, Schenley
Industries, Inc. and Talisman Sugar Corporation. The series also includes materials related
to grower support groups. This series is arranged alphabetically.
Series II,
Agricultural Workers Unions and Affiliated
Organizations,
consists of reports, flyers, newsletters, correspondence, pamphlets
and other material related to the unionization of agricultural workers in the state of
California. This series is arranged alphabetically.
Series I: Growers and Affiliated Organizations, 1949-1996
Series II: Agricultural Workers Unions and Affiliated Organizations, 1948-1973
Copyright for unpublished materials authored or otherwise produced by the creator(s) of
this collection has been transferred to California State University, Northridge. Copyright
status for other materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected
by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the
written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any
use rests exclusively with the user.
The collection is open for research use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
California State University, Fresno. 10/04/2006.
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guide.
Holli Teltoe, 2015
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