The charter dispute concerning the menhaden fishermen was resolved at a meeting at AMC Headquarters in Chicago on March 4, during which it was decided to reorganize Local 300 to meet the fishermen's objections; see the memorandum on the meeting (March 4) and Mitchell's report to Patrick Gorman on the progress of the reorganization (April 20). There is also a copy of a letter from organizer Willie Berry to Howard Harrity protesting the decision (March 18). The union was steeped in contract negotiations with various menhaden fishing companies during this Spring. See especially the correspondence between Mitchell and James Youngdahl on the progress of the negotiations (March 16, 19, 22) and the drafts of proposed contracts (March 11, 19; April 5, 29, n.d.). The papers include copies of a triangular correspondence between the AWOC, California Governor Edmund Brown, and Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz on the bracero problem in California (March 5, 7, 24); see also Mitchell to AMC Vice-President Harry R. Poole on the current status of the AWOC organizing drive (March 9).