April to May, 1967, 1967

Local 300 staged a one month strike against the hold-out menhaden companies beginning on April 24. The papers include a large number of items on the strike and the resulting bargaining sessions; see especially Mitchell's reports to Patrick Gorman (May 17, 24). Information on Mitchell's developing plans for a southwide conference on rural problems appears in his letters to Eugene Cox (April 4), to NSF staff member Jac Wasserman (May 18; June 28), and in his two memoranda on the subject (May 4, 23). On the self-help housing project which Mitchell initiated at Edgard, Louisiana, see his exchange with Assistant Secretary of Agriculture John D. Baker (April 4, 18) and his magazine article prepared for the Butcher Workman (May 18).