Guide to the Anne Loftis Papers,

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2 Collection number: M0306 Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California Contact Information Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA Phone: (650) URL: Processed by: Diane Stewart Date Completed: 1981 June 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Anne Loftis Papers, Date (inclusive): Collection number: Special Collections M0306 Creator: Loftis, Anne. Extent: 4.5 linear ft. Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Language: English. Access Restrictions None. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections. Provenance Gift of Anne Loftis, Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] Anne Loftis Papers, M0306, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Biographical Note Anne Loftis was born in New York City in 1922 to Mary R. Nevins and the late historian Allan Nevins. She graduated from Smith College in 1944, then worked as a journalist and free-lance writer. She is the author (or co-author) of three books published by Macmillan: The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of Japanese-Americans During World War II, written with Audrie Girdner California, Where the Twain Did Meet A Long Time Coming: The Struggle to Unionize America's Farm Workers, written with Dick Meister She is also the author of numerous articles on ethnic groups and farm labor organizing. She is married to John Loftis, emeritus member of the Stanford English Department. Scope Note Special Collections M0306 2

3 Papers consist of research materials gathered by Anne Loftis and compiled for the book which she co-authored with Dick Meister, A Long Time Coming. The collection includes correspondence, interviews and oral histories, notes, photographs, and printed material such as brochures, handbills, newsclippings, and pamphlets. The papers document the various efforts to unionize America's farm workers during the twentieth century and include materials on major unions such as the National Farm Labor Union, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and the United Farm Workers of America. In most instances, the original titles of folders have been retained. Administrative Information Governor Jerry Brown(6/1, 2, 3, 4) Cesar Chavez(1/8; 5/12) Dr. Ernesto Galarza(1/10, 16, 26) H.L. Mitchell(1/4, 21-26; 4/4-12) Jean Simpson(1/3) Reverend James L. Vizzard(1/4-7, 11) Henry Wallace(1/12) Senator Williams(5/9-12) AAAAgricultural Adjustment Administration ACLUAmerican Civil Liberties Union AFL - CIOAmerican Federation of Labor AWOCAgricultural Workers Organizing Committee IWWIndustrial Workers of the World NFLUNational Farm Labor Union STFUSouthern Tenant Farmers Union TFUTenant Farmers Union UFWUnited Farm Workers of America USDAU.S. Department of Agriculture CORRESPONDENCE REGARDING A LONG TIME COMING Box 1, Folder 1 Incoming, arranged alphabetically. Bliven, Bruce 12/23/69-9/16/75 Chambers, Pat 7/22/74 Donofrio, John 10/14/74 East, H. Clay 12/12/75 Fodell, Beverly 6/4/74 Foster, James nd Fugita, Stephen 10/18/77 Gardiner, Polly 11/1/? Graulich, Melody 6/5/74 Hart, James 6/3/77 Higgins, George 6/4/74 Hirasuna, Fred 3/28/74, 6/9/74 Honda, Harry 4/19/74 Land, Robert 6/10/74 McWilliams, Carey 7/26/78 Meier, Matt 4/4/74, 2/3/77 Miller, Sally 5/19/77 Mink, Patsy 11/21/74 Mitchell, H.L. (see folder 2, directly following) Phillips, Hubert 3/29/75 Pillard, Vicky 1/27/78 Schacter, Leon 5/23/75, 6/6/75 Box 1, Folder 2 Mitchell, H.L. 1/18/76-6/28/78 Special Collections M0306 3

4 Box 1, Folder 3 Simpson, Jean 12/19/73-5/16/74? Box 1, Folder 4 Vizzard, Rev. James 5/30/74-2/6/78 Box 1, Folder 5 Outgoing correspondence - 3/19/74-12/16/74 Box 1, Folder 6 Outgoing correspondence - 3/18/75-11/18/76 Box 1, Folder 7 Outgoing correspondence - 11/26/76-7/30/78 INTERVIEWS AND ORAL HISTORIES - used as sources in writing A Long Time Coming, arranged alphabetically. Box 1, Folder 8 Anderson, Henry, former staff official of AWOC, interview 5/12/75 Box 1, Folder 8 Chavez, Cesar, speaking at Portola Valley 5/6/73,and at a gathering for financial support 5/6/73. Box 1, Folder 9 De La Cruz, Jessie, oral history, 12/14/73Folder 18) Box 1, Folder 10 Galarza, Dr. Ernesto, interview, 5/7/74.(See also Box 1, Folder 18) Box 1, Folder 11 Hasiwar, Hank, former organizer for the NFLU. Interview 6/30/75.Also included is xerox of TL to Hasiwar from Loftis. Hirasuma, Fred, active in Nisei League. Interview 6/13/74. Jackson, Gardner (See Box 4, Folders 5,6,7) McCullough, Rev. Thomas. Interview 5/29/75. Phillips, Dr. Hubert. Interview 6/14/74.Also included: TL from Loftis to Phillips, 10/7/75,and clippings of Phillips' death, 7/76. Smith, Chris and Dave, workers for UFW. Interview 1/28/74. Toledo, Manuel, interpreted by Inez Mariner, 1/19/77. Vera Cruz, Philip, Filipino vice president of UFW-AFL-CIO. Interview 9/11/74. Vizzard, James L. Interview 6/23/75. Box 1, Folder 12 Wallace, Henry. Notes only from Henry Wallace, ,Vol. II. Box 1, Folder 13 Yoneda, Karl and Elaine. Interview 4/8/74.Also included is TL from Loftis to Karl Yoneda, 10/7/75. OTHER RESEARCH MATERIALS: Scope and Content Note Correspondence, notes, excerpts, and miscellaneous (other than direct interviews) concerning people from whom Loftis received information for A Long Time Coming. Box 1, Folder 14 DiGiorgio, Joseph. DiGiorgio Farm Strike. Congressional records (xerox) of strike in general and of accounts given by Galarza (81st Congress) and notes taken from Galarza Collection (MS224). Box 1, Folder 15 DiGiorgio Strike (continued). Notes re Wendell reports and DiGiorgio libel suits (also taken from MS 224) Box 1, Folder 16 Galarza, Ernesto. TLS from Galarza to Loftis with photograph of Galarza, 2/23/76;questions for Dr. Galarza; AFL-CIO news release, 3/4/57;pp (xerox) of Barrio Boy; Univ. of Notre Dame press release of Farm Workers and Agri-business in California, ;notes taken from Galarza Collection. Box 1, Folder 17 Gannaway, David Molloy, president of Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of Virginia. Brief biographical sketch and information regarding his papers. (See also Box 2, Folder 5) Box 1, Folder 18 Lubin Simon J. From the Bancroft Library, notes taken mainly from letters, telegrams to and from Lubin, Box 1, Folder 19 Mitchell, H.L., co-founder, historian STFU. 1) Writings of Mitchell: A Message from a Friend; How I Became a Socialist; Little Known Farm Labor History; Recollections of a Southern Radical; Red Emma Passes at Toronto; Terror in Arkansas (incomplete) Box 1, Folder 20 2) Correspondence of Mitchell to others, 7/22/76-7/21/78 3) Miscellaneous Box 1, Folder 21 a) Lists of his schedules and appearances, ; The California Democratic Socialist. 4/18/75 Box 1, Folder 22 b) Publicity for his books and appearances Special Collections M0306 4

5 Box 1, Folder 23 c) Personal: biographical sketch; questions for HLM by Anne Loftis; photograph of him and Hubert Humphrey; release for micro publication signed by Loftis; legal agreement from publisher Box 1, Folder 24 d) Publications not by Mitchell: The Green Rising, ; What Socialism Is and What It is Not; excerpt (xerox) from Documentary Expression in Thirties America by William Scott; Presentation of the Clandening Award to H.L. Mitchell, 1949;Labor Studies Conference Opportunities, pamphlets Yoneda, Karl (See under Japanese Farm Workers, Box 2, Folders 31-33) VISUAL AND TOPICAL MATERIAL: Box 1, Folder 25 book jacket; xerox of the Introduction of the book; announcements of newly published A Long Time Coming; synopsis of the book from Washington Post, 6/12/77. Box 1, Folder 26 Cartoon portraying American dislike of Chinese immigrants; map of California with its farm areas cited; three photographs, including ones with H.L. Mitchell and Ernesto Galarza AGRICULTURAL ISSUES Box 2, Folder 1 Big Farms Concept. FCL newsletter, 11/22, 5/73;testimony of the National Coalition for Land Reform to Senate Revenue and Taxation Commission on SB 1290, 7/26/72; Agriculture in California, 1966:Statement of the Directors of the Catholic Rural Life Conference, article on worsening conditions for farmers, 1970;interview with Gus Stamenson 9/6/72;testimony of Stamenson, 1/12/72;California Farmers Consumer Reporter, 12/68;pages from In Definite Battle: Steinbeck and California's Land Monopolists, statement of aims of the NCLR; clippings, ;notes Box 2, Folder 2 California Agriculture. The Beginning of Agriculture in California: Innovation vs. Continuity, by Rodman W. Paul, from California Historical Quarterly, Spring 1973(xerox) Box 2, Folder 3 Economic Studies. Seasonal Labor in California Agriculture, 1973,by John W. Mamer and Kuo-Shung Huang; Farm Labor in the U.S., by C. G. Bishop; Newsweek clipping, 11/15/75 Box 2, Folder 4 Economic Studies of the University of California. Oral History Center Proposed River Delta Project, with attached TLS to Loftis from A. I. Hickman; notes Box 2, Folder 5 Farmers and Issues. History of the Sun-Maid Organization and Its Antecedents, booklet; The Condition of Farm Workers and Small Farmers in 1965,report to the National Sharecropper directors; FCL newsletter, 11/72;FCL Reporter Apr - May 1972;miscellaneous untitled pages Box 2, Folder 6 Farmers and Issues (continued). clippings re hoof and mouth disease, 9/74;water pollution; misc Box 2, Folder 7 Health and Welfare. Directory of Migrant Health Projects, bulletin. Box 2, Folder 8 Health and Welfare - Child Labor. NFWM newsletter, 6/77;clippings, ;list of statistics; TF from Rosemary Cooperider with small note to Anne Loftis. Box 2, Folder 9 Health and Welfare - Health and Work. Bulletin, Health of Farm Workers; notes; clippings Box 2, Folder 10 Health and Welfare - Housing. Self-help Enterprise, Inc. booklet; What Is the Story Behind the Napa Valley Wine Boycott? bulletin from UFW; interview with Feliciano Urrutia, 2/23/70; Self-help Enterprises, report No. 5, 12/15/65-2/15/66;clippings Box 2, Folder 11 Health and Welfare - Pesticides. Clippings, ; The Poisons We Eat, bulletin; notes Box 2, Folder 12 Health and Welfare - Self-Help. Clippings Box 2, Folder 13 Mechanization. Notes on California Agricultural Mechanization Conference, 2/4/78;notes/clippings, See TLS from Vicky Pillard, Box 1, Folder 3. Box 2, Folder 14 Scabrook Farms. Articles, reference notes; The Scabrook Farms Story, booklet; The Condition of Farm Workers and Small Farms in 1963,report to the National Sharecroppers directors; FCL newsletter, 11/72;FCL Reporter, 4-5/72;miscellaneous untitled pages. Box 2, Folder 15 Statistics Today. California Manpower Indicator from the 1970Census, 2/72booklet; A Statistical Picture of California's Agriculture, booklet; notes; clippings, Special Collections M0306 5

6 Box 2, Folder 16 Wages. Official California Dept. of Employment Division of Farm Labor Services - Chart of Statistics; Sharecroppers, Washington news report, 5/74;notes; clippings, 1974 Box 2, Folder World Food Problems. Magazine articles, ;report from Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator, 12/74 BRACERO PROGRAM Box 3, Folder 1 Introduction: Strangers to Our Fields - The National Farm Labor Union Fights the Bracero Program, by Anne Loftis; comments on Strangers, by U.N. Secretary (notes only); TFL re Southwest Labor History Conference, 1/27/75. Box 3, Folder 2 Braceros - Chronology. The Bracero Program in California: Political Development, Support and Expiration, by Sheldon Wylie, 5/20/67;employment tables and maps of foreign farm workers; notes. Box 3, Folder 3 Braceros - Depressing Wages and Replacing Domestic Workers - Notes. Box 3, Folder 4 Bracero Grievances - notes. Box 3, Folder 5 Bracero - Growers Violations - notes. Box 3, Folder 6 Bracero - Strikebreakers - notes. Box 3, Folder 7 Demand for Braceros from Growers - notes. Box 3, Folder 8 Demand for Braceros in other states (than California)- Arkansas, Minnesota, Texas - Notes. Box 3, Folder 9 Demand for Braceros - Union vs. USES (U.S. Employment Services), xerox of questions for Dr. Galarza. Box 3, Folder 10 Demand for Other Foreign Workers. Questionnaire from Progrssive Growers Association of Santa Clara. Box 3, Folder 11 End of Bracero era. Congressional Record (xerox); notes clippings, Box 3, Folder 12 Legislative Hearings on Bracero Program - Agricultural Labor in the San Joaquin Valley, final reports and recommendations, 3/15/31(xerox). Box 3, Folder 13,14,15 Legislative hearings (continued) - Congressional bills and articles pertaining to farm labor and migrating labor laws (xerox). Box 3, Folder 16 Legislative hearings (continued) - notes in spiral notebook. BRACEROS AND UNIONS Box 3, Folder 17 Unions against Braceros - notes. Box 3, Folder 18 Unions and Braceros - notes. Box 3, Folder 19 Union organization of Braceros - notes. Box 3, Folder 20 Union organization - attitudes of Big Labor; notes. Box 3, Folder 21 Union organization - CIO; notes. Box 3, Folder 22 Union organization - Cuban union; notes. Box 3, Folder 23 Union organization - Getting farm workers to join; notes. Box 3, Folder 24 Union organization - Growers vs. Unions; notes. Box 3, Folder 25 Union organization - Mexican attitudes; notes. Box 3, Folder 26 Union organization - NFLU; notes. Box 3, Folder 27 Unions vs. Labor Department. ILLEGALS, MIGRANTS, AND OTHER WORKERS Box 3, Folder 28 Domestic Workers - notes and clippings Box 3, Folder 29 Domestic Workers - interstate recruitment; notes Box 3, Folder 30 Later Migrants - Invisible Migrant Workers, by Dorothy Neiten, with photographs of The Lonely Migrant, by Richard Bellak, 4/77; The Migrant Worker, booklet from the League of Women Voters of California; Travel Patterns of Seasonal Farm Workers, 1961;miscellaneous notes; clippings, 1974 Box 3, Folder 31 Migrants (general) - notes Box 3, Folder 32 Migrants - President Truman Commission - notes Box 3, Folder 33 Illegals - Green Carders. Xerox, clippings, Box 3, Folder 34 Illegals Today. Misc. articles and clippings; notes ;See also correspondence from Alan Cranston and John Tunney Box 3, Folder 35 Wetbacks. Notes Box 3, Folder 36 Wetbacks - Abuses. Notes Box 3, Folder 37 Wetbacks - Cultural Continuity. Songs of the Mexican Migration, by Paul S. Taylor; notes Special Collections M0306 6

7 Box 3, Folder 38 Wetbacks - Legalizing the Illegals; notes Box 3, Folder 39 Wetbacks as strikebreakers; notes Box 3, Folder 40 Wetbacks - Miscellaneous Articles. Evolution of Mexican Farm Labor Agreement of 1942; Interest Groups and Foreign Policy; Group Processes and the Era of Stabilization, the Bracero Program ; The State of the Unions, by Paul Jacobs. FARMERS Box 4, Folder 1 General Introduction. Farm Workers to Farmers; clippings, reports from the Center for Rural Studies (San Francisco); interview with David Brewer, 12/13/74;clippings Box 4, Folder 2 Newspaper clippings, ;California farmer-consumer Reporter, 4-5/73; Rural Advance, winter /77 Box 4, Folder 3 Associated; notes from Galarza collection; clippings Box 4, Folder 4 Farmers, Californian. Newspaper clippings, ;CFC Reporter clipping, 10-11/73;agricultural business - farmers in California (statistics) 1968; Agricultural Business, lecture by Charles Wollenburg, 10/1/74. Box 4, Folder 5 Farmers Union. Principles and Purposes of the Farmers Union, by L.M. Rhodes; A Few Facts for Farmers, by C.W. Brooks; The Revolt of the Farmers, by Charles E. Russel; notes taken from correspondence. (See also Box 1, Folder 19, for information on D.M. Gannavas) LABOR CONTRACTOR Box 4, Folder 6 Misc. notes; El Malcriado, 3/23/73;xerox from Los Angeles Times, 3/20/73 FARM WORKERS: Collection of various information re farm workers in general. Box 4, Folder 7 Comments on Farm Labor: interview with David Brewer, 12/15/74;clippings, ;notes Box 4, Folder 8 Farm Worker Legislation: notes on farm labor legislation, such as the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act, Migrant Health Act, Food and Nutrition Programs; OEO, Rural Legal Assistance, Office of Education Box 4, Folder 9 Miscellaneous papers on farm worker legislation; their position on the legislation; news letters; written notes Box 4, Folder 10 Xerox of various bills on public health, migrant labor camps, effective use of agricultural workers, privileges, payments Box 4, Folder 11 Farm Worker Publications and Clippings: One Quarter Century of Farmer-Labor-Consumer Action, ;FCL newsletter, 4/73;church bulletin; California Farmer Consumer Reports, 10/68; Labor Contractor Law, 5/65;La Lucha, 5/75 Box 4, Folder 12 Miscellaneous clippings on farm workers, boycotts, etc., Box 4, Folder 13 Historical Perspective: notes on early strikes, current status of agricultural labor, farm labor, and the wars Box 4, Folder 14 Packinghouse Workers: miscellaneous notes from magazines, papers, Box 4, Folder 15 Sharecroppers: Rural Advance, Summer/74bulletin and pamphlets; Organic Training Farm Leads to Rural Renaissance, by Paul Good EARLY FARM WORKERS - (Nisei farm workers) Box 4, Folder 16 General, newspaper clippings, 1977 Box 4, Folder 17 Bindlestiffs - notes Box 4, Folder 18 Chinese Early Farm Workers - clipping, 5/15/72;notes Box 4, Folder 19 Hindu Early Farm Workers - notes Box 4, Folder 20 Japanese Early Farm Workers - (See also Box 1, Folder 13); notes and Box 4, Folders 32, 33, 34. Box 4, Folder 21 Labor Contractor Early Farm Workers - article from El Maleriado notes REGIONAL FARM WORKER, U.S. Box 4, Folder 22 Alabama: (sharecropper peonage) notes; clippings 1974 Box 4, Folder 23 Arizona, New Mexico: The Yardstick, by George Higgins, 7/72;Arizona Quarterly, Autumn/78;miscellaneous clippings, articles Box 4, Folder 24 Arkansas: clippings, 1971, 1974, 1975 Box 4, Folder 25 Colorado: notes Box 4, Folder 26 Florida: The Florida Christian Migrant Ministry, 3/73 and 9/72;testimony of Herbert Hill, Labor Secretary, NAACP, 11/5/63;record of suit by Florida workers against Florida agencies; miscellaneous clippings, Special Collections M0306 7

8 Box 4, Folder 27 Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, New England, Ohio, Wisconsin: reference notes Box 4, Folder 28 New Jersey, New York: interview with David Pratt, Project Director, Migrant Health Services, 7/18/74;Suffolk County Relation Commission Report, 11/3/67; Migrant Protection Sought, news release, 1/31/68;miscellaneous clippings and articles, 1972 Box 4, Folder 29 Oregon, Texas, Utah: notes; clippings, 1975 Box 4, Folder 30 Washington: notes REGIONAL FARMERS AND FARM WORKERS - FOREIGN Box 4, Folder 31 Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans: Puerto Rican newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 (English and Spanish editions); statements of Clarence Senior and Alan Perl, Puerto Rican Department of Labor; notes. (See also ALS from Polly Gardner to Loftis, Box 1, Folder 3) Box 4, Folder 32 Japan (and Karl Yoneda): Yoneda, Personal: biographical sketches; xerox of I.D. and miscellaneous membership cards; We Salute the 45th Anniversary of Elaine Black and Karl Yoneda Box 4, Folder 33 Works of Yoneda: History of Japanese Farm Labor in California, Heritage of Senator Katayama, poem Angel Island Detention Station Box 4, Folder 34 Works of Yoneda (continued): 100 Years of Japanese Labor History in the USA; A Brief History of U.S. Asian Labor A Partial History of California Japanese Farm Workers; Rain, Rain, and Rain; Youth Never Dies Box 4, Folder 35 Mexico: notes LEGISLATION Box 5, Folder 1 Governor Edmund G. Brown's Laws: Proposition 14-A Background Paper, 9/14/76;various letters, flyers, etc., commenting on Proposition 14; FL from Brown; misc. FLs from Cesar Chavez and others of AFL-CIO to Friends of the Farm Workers, 2/12/76;Alan Cranston (California Senator) to Anne Loftis; quotes from Rose Bird (Ca. Sec. of Agr.) speaking at Calif. History Society, 9/18/75;FCL newsletter, 11/75;flyers about boycotting of non-ufw grapes; The Teamster Raid: Stalled in the Vineyards, by George Baker; misc. mimeographs Box 5, Folder 2 Brown's Laws (continued): clippings, Box 5, Folder 3 Brown's Laws (continued): Boycott Non UFW Grapes bumper sticker; articles, Box 5, Folder 4 Changes After Brown: misc. notes, xeroxed articles; TNA from Maia Krahl to Loftis, 2/27/77 Box 5, Folder 5,6 Wheatland Rift - 7/8/76,Loftis to Dick (?) re traveling through area of Wheatland field riot, with photographs, notes; misc. articles Box 5, Folder 7 Tolan Committee (ca. 1940):notebook #6 with the following: Wheatland (continued); IWW; court decision on Charlotte Whitney; Ford-Subr trial, investigation of Lop-field conditions; Douglas' memoirs of Yakima Farm Workers; hearings on Interstate Migration, 1940;H.L. Mitchell Box 5, Folder 8 Tolan (continued): notebook #7, congressional records interdispersed; Tolan Commission on Interstate Migration, 1940(Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Oklahoma Tenant Farmers Union); California - The Dust Bowl Migrants, AFC opposition to FSA camps, Epworth League attempt to organize workers in camps Box 5, Folder 9 Senator Williams Commission: notebook #3 - end of Washington hearings; hearing in Rio Grande, Texas; beginning of hearings in Monroe County (Rochester, NY). Notebook #4 - hearing with Robert Kennedy in Rochester; statistics on imports and exports; statement by Charles Gubson on CLRA and reply from AFSC; agricultural labor in Hawaii; report by William Friedland of Cornell on NY labor camp organization; hearings on H.R. 4769; misc. Box 5, Folder 10 Williams (continued): notebook #5 - H.R (con'd), addition to Cesar Chavez' testimony; special arrangement for Puerto Rican farm workers; state right-to-work laws; summary of Arvin Dinuba Study; Senate hearings Special Collections M0306 8

9 Box 5, Folder 11 Box 5, Folder 12 Box 5, Folder 13 Box 6, Folder 1 Box 6, Folder 2 Box 6, Folder 3 Box 6, Folder 4 Box 6, Folder 5,6,7 Box 6, Folder 8 Box 6, Folder 9 Box 6, Folder 10 Box 6, Folder 11 Box 6, Folder 12 Box 6, Folder 13 Box 6, Folder 14 Box 6, Folder 15 Box 6, Folder 16 Williams (continued): notebook #6 - continuation of hearings of Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, in Delano, CA; continuation of hearings in San Antonio, TX; statement by Paul S. Taylor on CA agriculture; 1967report of the Commission on Labor and Public Welfare; article on Grapes of Wrath and criticism of In Dubious Battle; article by John Steinbeck in Nation; Mexican farm labor agreement of 1942.Notebook #2 - summary of Senate hearings on 5.8 (Migratory Labor Legislation) Williams (continued): misc. articles: The Farmers Arise, reprint 6-9/66re Starr Co. strike and Senate hearings and analysis of strike; injunction against picketing by UFW, Congressional Record, 1967;Congressional Record-Senate (including testimony by Cesar Chavez) Miscellaneous Court Action: U.S. Supreme Court report - petition for a writ of certiorari, 10/73;plaintiff- appellant brief; record of UFW organizing committee vs. Texas ranges and sheriffs (specific ones listed); report at the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1955;notes; clippings, 1974 UNIONS AWOC reference notes Inter Union Strife and misc. strikes notes IWW (Industrial Workers of the World): notes for We Shall Be All, a history of the IWW by Melvin Dubofsky; The Industrial Union in Agriculture, by Tom Connors; Arizona Labor Journal for 1917(xerox); xeroxed pages from So Shall Ye Reap, the story of Cesar Chavez and the farm workers movement by Joan London and Henry Anerson; xeroxed pages from The Wobblies, by Patrick Renshaw; notes from A History of American Labor, by Joseph Raybock; The California Casual and His Revolt, by Carlton Parker; Tales of the IWW, by Paul Shinoff; Songs for Rebel Workers; The Story of the Ford Case, by the ACLU; misc. notes and clippings. STFU (Southern Tenant Farmers Union): chronology and ideology; Introduction; The Founding and Early History of the STFU, by H.L. Mitchell; Constitution of the Arkansas Tenant Farmers Union. STFU (continued): ideology - oral history with Gardner Jackson, typed and written notes intermingled. STFU (continued): La Follette Committee - Farm Holiday Association Memoirs; interview with John Bosel, 11/4/61;interview with Richard Bosch, 11/4/61;notes. STFU (continued): movements; notes. STFU (continued): movements (continued) newsletter; xerox of pages from Man on the Move, by Nels Anderson; pages from Three Years of the AAA; misc. reference notes. STFU (continued) and other unions - The STFU and the CIO, by Mark Nelson; notes. STFU (continued): conclusions -Mob Attacks in Arkansas 4/13/75; The Southern Tenant Farmer Union, booklet of excerpts from interviews conducted by the Institute for Southern Studies. UFW - Chronology ;conference at UFW headquarters; Cesar Chavez speaking at a gathering; interview with Philip Vera Cruz; interview with Chris and Dave Smith; Selected Bibliography, UFW, ;misc. flyers, articles. UFW - Chronology (continued): misc. notes. UFW - Convention: summary of the Third Constitutional Convention, UFW, AFL-CIO, 9/26-28/77;folders and materials for convention; UFW newsclippings (See Box 8, Folder 2). Union W.A.G.E. (Union Women's Alliance to Gain Equality): notes on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Mary Harris Jones from Women, Their Changing Roles; biographical sketch of Mary Harris Jones and Emma Goldman; clipping, Tribute to Women Union Organizers, 10/22/76;Union WAGE newsletters, 3-5/75;map to WAGE meeting. (See also correspondence from Anne Loftis to Lynn Donovan, 12/10/76;to Pat Palmer, 4/27/76;and to Jean Simpson, 4/30/75).(See Box 8, Folders 4, 5 for Union WAGE clippings) Special Collections M0306 9

10 Box 6, Folder 17 Other Women's Labor Unions: syllabus for women's labor history: 19th and 20th century America; Matilda Lindsey and the NWTUL: Labor in the Southeast, by Josephine F. Pacheco. Box 6, Folder 18 Unions - Miscellaneous: Syndicalism - Law and Trials (concerning unions; written notes on The Silent Defenders, Courts and Capitalism in California, by Harvey Duff; To the Beasts, by Calif. General Defense Committee; The IWW's First Fifty Years ( )by Fred Thompson; The Wobblies by Patrick Renshaw; Go East, Young Man by William Douglass; notes also on Charlotte Anita Whitney, Supreme Court Reporter; misc. reference (see also Appendix, Box 8, Folder 11). U.S. GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENTS WITH AGRICULTURE Box 6, Folder 19 AAA Background and Policy: pages (xerox) from Economic Resources and Policies in the South; reference notes. Box 6, Folder 20 California Committee on Immigration and Housing - reference notes. Box 6, Folder 21 Farm Security Administration - reference notes. Box 6, Folder 22 USDA-Policy and People: interviews, 1/53-10/66with Dean Albertson about Jesse Tapp and Rexford Tugwell; with Willa Bava about Cully Cobb. PUBLICATIONS Box 7, Folder 1 Catholic Worker newspaper: 1/72-6/74 Box 7, Folder 2 Catholic Worker newspaper: 7/74-5/75 Box 7, Folder 3 Catholic Worker newspaper: 6/75-12/76 Box 7, Folder 4 Catholic Worker newspaper: 1/77-5/78 Box 7, Folder 5 El Malcriado (UFW, AFL - CIO newspaper): 1/66-1/74 Box 7, Folder 6 El Malcriado (UFW, AFL - CIO newspaper): 2/74-10/74 Box 7, Folder 7 El Malcriado (UFW, AFL - CIO newspaper): 11/74-1/75 Box 7, Folder 8 Land Worker magazine: 8/74-2/75 Box 7, Folder 9 Land Worker magazine: 3/75-6/75 Box 7, Folder 10 Land Worker magazine: 7/75-10/75 Box 7, Folder 11 NACL pamphlets, Box 8, Folder 1 National Farm Workers Ministry. NFWM newsletter, seven editions summer/75 to spring/78;nfwm to Action Mailing List, 5/30/75 and 3/23/77;NFWM bulletin for upcoming events Box 8, Folder 2 UFW: newsclippings, press releases Box 8, Folder 3 Misc. clippings re Mexican and Cuban immigrants, other farm workers Box 8, Folder 4 Misc. clippings, 9/76-6/77 Box 8, Folder 5 Misc. clippings, 7/77-4/78 Folder Oversized Photostats of the Visalia Times-Delta, 10/9/33-11/21/33concerning farm workers' folder strike Box 8, Folder 6-9 SOURCES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH Bibliography of some of the materials used in this collection and/or to be used for future research; written notes, xeroxes, etc. DOCUMENTS FOR APPENDIX Box 8, Folder 10 Collective Bargaining Agreement, 4/16/73;chart and tables; percent farm population in Calif. and U.S.; Mexican Nationals employed and unemployed Box 8, Folder 11 The Condition of Farm Workers and Small Farmers, six issues, yearly ;farm labor organizing bibliography; Outsiders in the System, by Friedland and Dorothy Nelkin; chart of official Calif. State Dept. of Employment, Division of Farm Labor Service; agricultural agreement between employers and Puerto Rican Agricultural workers; Appendix - Criminal syndicalism: A Prospectus for a History of Farm Labor Organizing Special Collections M