March to May, 1966, 1966

The papers for these months contain a great deal of correspondence with both the NLRB and the New Orleans law firm of Kullman and Lang on the failure of the menhaden companies to sign contracts; see especially Mitchell's detailed letter to an NLRB Field Examiner on the problem (March 8), a memorandum on a meeting between the union and the firm (March 7), and two long letters from Kullman and Lang charging the union with the stalled negotiations (May 17, 31). There are three letters from California lawyer Alexander H. Schullman on setting up a test case on the constitutionality of excluding agricultural workers from NLRB protection (March 4, 7, 24). April marked the victory of Cesar Chavez in his campaign against the Schenley Co. in Delano, California; on this subject, see the exchange between Mitchell and Patrick Gorman (April 8, 15), the exchange between Samuel Pollock, President of the AMC in Cleveland, Ohio, and Gorman (April 20, 28), and Mitchell to Galarza (May 5)