June, 1959, 1959

On the AWOC, see the frequent exchange of correspondence between Mitchell and both AWOC Director Norman Smith and Ernesto Galarza, as well as the minutes of an AWOC meeting (14). Two of Mitchell's letters to Smith and Galarza contain considerable information on the progress of the NAWU attempt to interest the AFL-CIO in a similar organizing campaign in the East (8,11). There is a memorandum by Mitchell to Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. on extending social welfare legislation to farm workers (4), and a joint letter to Smith and Galarza on NAWU strategy concerning the forthcoming hearings by Senator John F. Kennedy's Welfare and Labor Committee on minimum wages for farm labor (26). The papers also include a BES memorandum on "Procedures and Requirements -- Mexican Labor Program" (17)