November and December, 1959, 1959

The dispute between the NAWU and UPWA concerning jurisdiction over the workers organized by the AWOC continued; see especially Mitchell's letters to Galarza and NSF Executive Secretary Fay Bennett on his talks with AFL-CIO officials on the problem (Nov 23) and Galarza's report on the AWOC campaign (Nov 6). On Mitchell's plans to set up a Southern AWOC, see his long letter to Dr. Frank A. Graham (Nov 27) and his draft of "A Program to Organize Southern Agricultural Workers" (n.d. [Nov]). There is a letter from Mitchell to Galarza on his conversation with Fred Blackwell, Council to Senator Harrison Williams' Sub-Committee on Migratory Labor, concerning the Committee's forthcoming hearings (Nov 24) and a memorandum by Galarza prepared to assist Blackwell (Nov 30). The papers also include an exchange between Mitchell and James W. Patton, Director of the Southern Historical Collection, on bringing the STFU Papers to Chapel Hill (Nov 30, Dec 8), and an unpublished article by Priscilla Roberson, written in 1937, on the life of Myrtle Lawrence, an Arkansas sharecropper and STFU member (Nov 3)