May to August, 1965, 1965

On May 29, Local 300 signed contracts with a number of menhaden fishing companies. Beginning June 13, the union struck the remaining companies which refused to sign contracts. The most detailed information on the strike appears in the almost daily exchange of correspondence between Mitchell and AMC Secretary-Treasurer Patrick Gorman during July, and in Mitchell's letters to AMC Vice-President Sam Twedell at the beginning and end of the strike (June 19 to 29; Aug 15, 21). Following the strike, there is an exchange between Mitchell and the New Orleans law firm of Kullman and Lang on whether the fishing companies had agreed to sign contracts in return for an end to the strike (Aug 18, 20). Mitchell's letters to lawyer James Youngdahl provide a good summary of cases currently before the NLRB (Aug. 4, 14, 25)