March and April, 1959, 1959

On the new AFL-CIO campaign to organize California farm workers, see Mitchell's letters to Galarza (March 26, April 3) and the position paper issued by the AFL-CIO entitled "An AFL-CIO Program to End Nineteenth Century Poverty in Twentieth Century America" (n.d. [April]). On the proposed revision of BES regulations governing the recruitment of domestic farm labor, see the Advisory Committee reports on the "Current Situation Relating to Proposed Regulations" (March 3) and Mitchell's letter to the Secretary of Labor, praising the new regulations but saying they do not go far enough (March 30). There is a memorandum from Mitchell to Walter Reuther on organizing Puerto Rican and Southern migrant farm workers (April 8), and a number of statements and press releases from the US Section, Joint US-Mexican Trade Union Committee (April 6,15,28)