Reel 53
Container
Contains 6 Results:
September 1966 to December 1966, Undated 1966, Miscellaneous Union Business 1966, and January 1967 to May 1967.
File — Reel: 53
Dates:
1932-1971
September to December, 1966, 1966
File — Reel: 53
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
The refusal of several menhaden fishing companies to sign contracts with Local 300 again becomes the most important topic in the papers for these months. Items relating to the dispute include: Mitchell's frequent exchange of correspondence with the law firm representing the companies, Kullman and Lang; several affidavits filed by Mitchell with the NLRB on the refusal to bargain; Mitchell's notes on a bargaining session held with Kullman and Lang (Oct 8), and his reports to AMC officials...
Dates:
1966
No Date, 1966, 1966
File — Reel: 53
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
Report by Mitchell on the 1966 Farm Worker Organizing Drive in California; memorandum on "A Project to Train Leaders For the Rural South"; flyers and bulletins issued by Local 300; memorandum by Mitchell on "A Project to Train Leaders for the Rural South"; flyers and bulletins issued by Local 300; memorandum by Mitchell on "A Low Cost Housing Project for Rural Families in Louisiana"; prospectus on a training program for seasonal farm workers in Reserve, Louisiana; proposed contracts for the...
Dates:
1966
Miscellaneous Union Business, 1966, 1966
File — Reel: 53
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
Folders 1803 to 1809 -- Not Filmed
Dates:
1966
January to March, 1967, 1967
File — Reel: 53
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
Mitchell and his associates in the AMC devised a new strategy to put pressure on the menhaden fishing companies to sign union contracts; for details see Mitchell's report on the industry, which includes a breakdown of union organization boat by boat (Jan 19), the notes on a meeting of AMC officials in Washington to devise the new strategy (Jan 26), the proposed contracts sent to the companies (Feb. 8; March 14), and Mitchell to Harry R. Poole on the current status of the negotiations (March...
Dates:
1967
April to May, 1967, 1967
File — Reel: 53
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1967