January to March, 1970, 1970

The NLRB ordered a hearing into the union's charges of unfair labor practices during the September election at the Riviana Foods plant in Abbeville, Louisiana; see the various papers issued by the Board (Jan. 16, 21, 29; Feb 6), Mitchell's press release on the hearing (March 5), and the copies of affidavits taken in the case, including one by Sister Anne Catherine Bizalion (Jan 30; Feb 17). There is a great deal of correspondence from Roy M. Raffield on his attempt to organize fishermen's co- operatives in Florida; see also Mitchell to NSF Southern Director Leonard E. Smith on the same subject (Jan 6). A group of students from Oberlin College undertook a winter survey of sugar cane workers during January; however, the only item in the papers for these months related to their project is a sample survey form (n.d. [Jan])