October, 1959, 1959

A one-day celebration on October 17 commemorated the 25th Anniversary of the NAWU; the papers include a speech by Albert Whitehouse, Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department (17). There are two highly informative letters from Mitchell to Galarza summing up his impressions of the AWOC organizing campaign during his recent visit to California (3, 27), as well as several letters from Galarza on his complaint that the workers recruited by AWOC were all being sent into UPWA (22, 24, 28). There is an exchange between William T. O'Rear, Secretary of the Fresno (Calif.) Central Labor Council, and Mitchell on arranging a mass meeting of farm workers in Fresno in early December (12, 15, 28)