November and December, 1960, 1960

The apparent failure of AWOC in California and the influence of UPWA on the AWOC continued to trouble Mitchell; see his exchange with Patrick Gorman (Nov 1, 16), Galarza's letters on the California situation (Dec 12, 24), a memorandum from Franz Daniel to George Meany replying to Mitchell's charges that AWOC was UPWA-dominated (Dec 9), and Mitchell to Gorman, commenting on the memorandum at length (Dec 29). On Mitchell's growing involvement in the civil rights campaign in the South, the papers include his report on a staff meeting on the AFL-CIO Civil Rights Department (Nov 14), a statement by Harry Fleishman, Director of the National Labor Service of the American Jewish Committee on "Equality and the Unions" (Nov 14), and Mitchell to AFL-CIO Civil Rights Director Boris Shiskin on discrimination against blacks in Memphis unions (Nov 28). On the plans for a new AMC organizing drive among agricultural workers, see especially the exchange between Mitchell and both AMC President Thomas J. Lloyd and Patrick Gorman (Dec 5, 8, 9)