A collection of letters, memos, news clippings and government reports. Examples are: One letter (3/13/56) from Ivan A. Wood (Mgr., S.D. County Farmers, Inc.) & replies from Congressman Wilson (3/21/56) & his Admin. Asst. E.F. Terrar, Jr. (3/28/56) re/ problems in obtaining “sufficient numbers of supplemental farm workers for our membership under Public Law 78;” 3 letters (5/4, 5/7, & 5/10/56) from Ivan A. Wood & E.F. Terrar, Jr.’s reply (5/7/56) re/ local farm labor problem because of Mexican Government’s interruption of the recruitment of “Specials” & restrictions on their ID cards; 1 letter (5/11/56) from INS Commissioner Joseph M. Swing & attached copies of “comparative figures and graphs illustrating the problem from July 1, 1953, to the present” re/ “the illegal alien situation in the State of California . . . . By tight border control [a 1954 apprehension of 1500] has been reduced to approximately 50 per day;” 1 copy of a letter (5/16/56) from Congressman Wilson to Ivan A. Wood re/ a meeting with the Asst. Sec. of Labor as a follow up to Mr. Wood’s May 10th letter & attempts to use the I-100 card as a tool for the recruitment of specials;” a packet of letters (June-July 1956) from Charles H. Forward (Luce, Forward, Kunzel & Scripps), Congressman Wilson, & Asst. Sec. of Labor Rocco C. Siciliano re/ complications that occurred “at Escondido where contracts of several hundred Mexican braceros were not extended;” 1 letter (7/24/56) from Charles H. Forward & E.F. Terrar’s reply (7/30/56) re/ Mr. Forward’s comment about Harold Stassen & complaints that “The Mexican situation here has not straightened itself out;” 1 letter (9/7/56) from Asst. Sec. of Labor Rocco C. Siciliano, Wilson’s response (9/19/56), office notes, & attached copy of “Summary of Investigation of Com-plaints Against J. Louis Carrillo re/ the “U.S.E.S. Representative, stationed at San Diego, California Region X;” a small packet of letters (Sept.-Oct. 1956) from Edward Hall (Distribution Dept., The Fund For the Republic, Inc.), Congressman Wilson & Ivan A. Wood (Mgr., S.D. County Farmers, Inc.) re/ a 5 page critical response by Mr. Wood & the members of County Farmers to Ernesto Galarza’s Strangers in Our Fields; a small packet of letters (Sept.-Oct. 1956) from Congressman Wilson, Rocco C. Siciliano, Gale R. Traver (Ken W. Baird, Co.), & Dorothy H. Blondeim (Sec. to the Secretary of Labor) re/ response material to the “problem [that] developed when it appeared that Mr. Traver and the Ken W. Baird Company, user-members of the S.D. County Farmers, Inc., were not paying their Mexican Nationals the prevailing wage rate in the area” & also reference in Mr. Traver’s letter to the investigation of Dept. of Labor representative Louis Carrillo;” 1 letter (9/25/56) from Romain Young (Asst. Sec., CA State Bd. of Agriculture), Congressman Wilson’s reply (10/1/56) & attached copy of “a resolution passed by the California Board of Agriculture at its meeting in San Francisco on September 17, 1956” & as directed to the Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell—“RE: Investigation of the Publication ‘Strangers in our Fields;’” 1 letter (2/14/57) from Robert C. Goodwin (Dir., Bureau of Employment Security, Dept. of Labor) & attached 2 page copy of a letter (2/11/57) from Rocco C. Siciliano (Asst. Sec. of Labor) to J.J. Miller (Sec.-Mrg., CA Farm Labor Assn.) re/ conflicts over interpretation of federal law & imported farm labor; a packet of materials (Dec. 1956-Mar. 1957), letters from Congressman Wilson & Ivan Wood, copies of George Pickering (Secretary), National Farm Labor User’s Committee Meetings for 2/12,13,14,15/57 (6 pp.), & a copy of U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, “Minimum Acceptable Standards For The Housing Of Mexican National Workers,” 12/56 Amended 1/7/57, (7 pp.) re/ the continued problem of housing & other federal regulatory needs for Mexican Nationals; a small packet containing 1 letter (3/25/57) from Rocco C. Siciliano & attached copies of “Partial Summary of Inspections Reports Period—January1 to March 8” (1 page) & U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, Farm Placement Service, “Housing Mexican National Workers—March 25, 1957 As Amended” (12 pp.) re/ Mr. Siciliano’s response to Congressman Wilson’s inquiry about housing standards for Mexican Nationals; a packet of containing letters (May 1957) from J.J. Miller (Sec.-Mrg., Agricultural Producers Labor Committee), Congressman Wilson’s reply, & attached copies of Chairman John M. Earl, “Minutes of FLOAC Feeding Committee, March 20, 1957 . . . Report and Preamble Feeding Committee,” & “Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Menus for Mon. through Sun,” Camp A-1 – Camp A-5 (12 pp. legal size); 2 copies of a letter (5/6/58) from Robert C. Goodwin (Dir., Bureau of Employ-ment Security, Dept. of Labor) to Keith Mets (Holtville, CA) & attached news-clipping, “Imperial County News Minimum Bracero Pay Demand Set,” (“The San Diego Union’s Washington News Bureau,” May 12, 1958) re/ Mr. Goodwin’s summary of “The conclusions reached at the conference;” 1 letter (3/13/58) from Congressman E. C. Cathings to Wilson re/ hearings on “Mexico National farm labor program have been re-scheduled for June 9, 10, and 11;” 1 letter (5/14/58) from Stephen D’Arrigo, Jr. (D’Arrigo Bros. Co. of CA) & Wilson’s reply (5/20/58)—“On behalf of myself, my company, and all users of Mexican Nationals, I wish to thank you for your active interest in the Bracero program;” 1 news clipping, “Saund Scored On Mexican Labor Actions,” (The San Diego Union, 5/24/58) re/ Republican counterpunch against Democratic Congressman D.S. Saund; 1 letter (5/26/58) from Ivan A. Wood & Wilson’s reply (6/4/58) re/ Wood’s critique of Robert Goodwin’s May 8th letter to Keith Mets summarizing the conference on Mexican labor policies; 1 letter (5/14/58) from Robert C. Goodwin & Wilson’s reply (5/29/58) re/ “Mr. Keith Mets, Chairman of the Wage Committee designated to act on behalf of your subcommittee on Mexican Labor;” 1 letter (7/3/58) from Ivan A. Wood (Mgr., San Diego County Farmers, Inc.) & Wilson’s reply (7/18/58) re/ Wood’s update on “the hearings before the Agricultural Sub-Committee, for the extension of Public Law 78 were satisfactory;” 1 letter (7/3/58) from Charles A. Crytser (Mechanical Engineer, Escondido) & Wilson’s reply (7/19/58) re/ Wilson’s “‘excellent support’ given by you and Congressman Utt on the Mexican Bracero problem;” a small packet containing corresp.(July-Aug. 1958) from Congressman Wilson & Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, and attached copy of “the report covering the Mexican Farm Labor which we have just voted on, extending it two more years” re/ “Bureau of Employment Security, Dept. of Labor, July 25, 1958—Memoran-dum To: Members of the Mexican Subcommittee—From: Robert C. Goodwin Director—Subject: Wage Policy Concerning Fifty Cent Earning Per Hour and Prevailing Wage Formula” (3 pp.).