April to June, 1970, 1970

There is a computer print-out of the survey of sugar workers conducted by a contingent of Oberlin students during January which provides a detailed statistical analysis of the workers' living conditions (April 28). A summary of the survey results appears in the testimony of Amy Gladstein and Bruce Griffiths before the USDA sugar cane wage hearings at Houma, Louisiana (June 5). The papers also include copies of the testimony by Mitchell, Sister Anne Catherine Bizalion, and Louisiana labor official Henry Pelet at the same hearings. Further information on the survey appears in the copies of letters from Amy Gladstein to Sister Anne Catherine (June 10). There is a Decision by the US Court of Appeals in the case of Local 300 v. McCulloch (June 19). The papers also include a copy of the Brief of the NLRB General Counsel in the Riviana Foods, Inc. case (April 3), a letter from Mitchell to NSF Executive Secretary Fay Bennett on racial conflict within the Southern Mutual Help Association (April 20), and a letter from Mitchell to Frank McCallister on re-organizing NSF (May 22)