August, 1948, 1948

The progress of the seasonal labor program may be followed in the letters from I. Lee Parker to Mitchell (3,7,11,18) and in the correspondence from the J.H. Heinz Co., which employed 80 NFLU workers at its plants in Muscatine, Iowa and Bowling Green, Ohio. The NFLU statement to the NLRB on the Di Giorgio injunction suit appears on August 3; see also the report from Hank Hasiwar on the court proceedings (18). A USIS Border Patrol guard at El Paso, Texas wrote Mitchell about the numerous violations of the immigration law at his station (1). There is a three-page mimeographed letter sent out by the Southeast Louisiana Dairy Farmers Union to its members explaining its decision to switch affiliation from the Teamsters Union to the NFLU (5), and a letter from Mitchell to AFL President William Green, asking for assistance in hiring two new organizers to work with the Louisiana dairy farmers and with citrus laborers in Florida (16)