July and August, 1959, 1959

The AWOC organizing campaign continued in California; see Galarza's five-page mimeographed letter to the Director of the California State Department of Employment detailing his complaints with the Department (July 7), and two AWOC Research Papers on "The Future Disposition of Public Law 78" and "The Wages that Prevail" (July 30; Aug 19). There is an interesting exchange between Mitchell and the Secretary of Labor over the NAWU charge that various state farm placement services are corrupt (Aug 5, 14, 18), and another exchange between Mitchell and Aurbrey Williams over Mitchell's request that Williams use his influence with Lyndon B. Johnson to convince Johnson to sponsor farm labor legislation (Aug 10, 21). There are letters from both NAWU lawyer Daniel H. Pollitt and Mitchell to Fred Blackwell, Counsel of the Senate Committee on Labor and Welfare, providing him with background information for the hearings to be conducted by the Sub-Committee on Migratory Labor (Aug 18,19), as well as a letter from Mitchell to Otto Feinstein of the University of Chicago reviewing the NAWU's relations with Mexican trade unions (Aug 24).