Reel 52

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Letters from organizers Howard Harrity and Paul Bridget; revised Constitution of Local 300; newsletters, flyers, etc. sent out by Local 300; working papers relating to collective bargaining sessions with menhaden fishing companies

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Folder 1774e -- Not Filmed. Folders 1775a and 1775b -- Not Filmed. Folder 1775c -- Lists of dues collected from menhaden fishermen. Folders 1775d and 1775e -- Not Filmed

Scope and Contents At the invitation of SNCC, Mitchell went to California in February to visit the Delano grape-pickers strike; the papers include his handwritten notes on meetings with strike leader Cesar Chavez (Feb 18) and AWOC Director C. Al Green (Feb 23), as well as his report on the trip to AMC California Director Max J. Osslo (Feb 25). There is also an exchange between Mitchell and SNCC worker Laura Foner in Arkansas (Feb. 6, 13, 16). Following a suggestion by Leon Schachter Mitchell formulated a...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Mitchell's attention began to turn during this summer from the menhaden fishermen to the organization of Louisiana sugar cane workers. Information on the planning of this new campaign appears in Mitchell's correspondence with Patrick Gorman (June 6, 24; July 5, 8, 18; Aug 26), with AMC Executive Vice-President Harry R. Poole (Aug. 1, 23), with N.A. Zonarich, Organizational Director of the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department (June 24), and with Charles H. Logan (Aug. 9, 31). There is also a...