September to December, 1965, 1965

The most interesting items in the papers for these months are the detailed affidavits on the strike and the stalled negotiations which Local 300 submitted to the NLRB in an attempt to force the hold-out menhaden companies to sign union contracts. These include several affidavits by Mitchell (Sept 4, 11, 24; Oct 12; Nov 3), one by organizer Lionel Sanders (Sept 27), and several by the fishermen themselves (Nov 29, 30). Mitchell's letters to James Youngdahl contain a good deal of information on these and other NLRB cases (Sept 3, Oct 5 to 18, Nov 5, Dec 23).