September, 1959, 1959

Along with the plans for the 25th Anniversary celebration, the importation of British West Indian farm workers into New York and New Jersey becomes the dominant issue in the papers this month. On this subject, see Mitchell's letter of complaint to the Department of Labor, see Mitchell's letter of complaint to the Department of Labor (1), a reply from New Jersey Governor Robert Meyner (10), a 17-page WDL report on "The Plight of the British West Indian and Bahamian Migrants" (28), and a letter from New Jersey Senator Harrison A. Williams, Jr. on his committee's planned investigation of migratory labor (5). The Department of Labor held hearings on the migrant problem; the papers include statements from the NAWU (2), the AWOC (9), and from the US Section, Joint US-Mexican Trade Union Committee (10). Finally, there is a copy of an NAWU resolution adopted by the Third AFL-CIO Convention on "Hired Farm Labor and Imported Contract Workers" (18)