July to September, 1968, 1968

The papers include a copy of the Complaint filed by the union in Local 300 v. McCulloch (July 22) and further legal papers filed at a later date (Aug. 28). See also Mitchell to Galarza on the case (July 28), and Mitchell to Harry R. Poole on new developments in the organization of sugar workers (July 18). The union formulated a new strategy in its attempt to organize the menhaden fishing industry; information on this subject appears in Mitchell's letters to Leon Schachter (Aug 2) and to Harry R. Poole (Sept 2, 18), and in an exchange between company lawyer Thomas M. Kerrigan and Mitchell (Aug 5, 8). Finally, there is a letter from Jerry Brown of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee on initiating a Grape Boycott in New Orleans (Aug. 31)