PNR-PRM-PRI (Mexico) Collection

Correspondence from the state party there (the PNR-PRM-PRI), from its trade union for industrial workers, and from the trade union for all farmers and agricultural workers (1937-1954). These documents instruct farmers to obey the president by joining the state party farmers' union; other items include official circulars for meetings and elections, membership lists for different communities, and the like; there is also a wealth of material about industrial conflicts, as the CTM generally resorted to hostile means to take over the opposing unions; agrarian conflicts erupted not only between landowners and farmers but also between farmers and small family businesses, as they wanted this land as well. Binder 5 contains the copies from a delegate, later a senator, who is requested to help assemble the farmers in the state trade union to prevent them from voting for candidates from the opposition in the 1940 and 1946 elections. Binder 6 contains the personal papers of the politician Ruben Carrizosa and reveals the extent of his camarilla (personal cronies) and contacts with large landowners, who want 'quid pro quo': they will surrender some land but want to retain a lot, which happens and greatly angers the agricultural workers, who are viewed by the village farmers as unwanted competitors. This situation gave rise to a great many conflicts, which the landlords cunningly instrumentalized (text by Raymond Buve). See also On the Waterfront (2017) 34, p. 11-12.