October to December, 1963, 1963

The organizing drive in the menhaden fishing industry continued with a series of NLRB elections and legal wrangles. Ballot tallies appear on October 18, 22 and 23. There are memoranda by Mitchell on the Louisiana Menhaden Co. case (Oct 10) and on "NLRB Elections on Menhaden Fishing Botes in Louisiana" (Oct 25) . The union filed unfair labor charges against several fishing companies; see the affidavits collected from fishermen to document the charges (Nov 14, 21) and Mitchell's letters to lawyer Spiro T. Agnew on settling the cases (Dec. 13, 18, 27). The papers include a number of legal papers relating to the Louisiana State Rice Milling Co. case (Oct 17, 19, 24; Nov 6); see also Mitchell's letters to the NLRB General Counsel on his complaints against the company (Nov 15; Dec 12, 31). Finally, there is a report by Mitchell on the farm machine training project for Louisiana sugar cane workers which Local 300 was closely involved in (n.d. [Oct.])