Reel 55
Container
Contains 6 Results:
April 1968 to December 1968, Undated 1968, and Miscellaneous Union Business 1968.
File — Reel: 55
Dates:
1932-1971
April to June, 1968, 1968
File — Reel: 55
Identifier: 1
Scope and Contents
The test case on NLRA exclusion of agricultural workers, designated Local 300 v. McCulloch, went through its preliminary phases during this Spring. Information on the progress of the lawsuit appears in correspondence from the union's lawyers, James Youngdahl, Richard Sobol, and Alexander Schullman, as well as in Mitchell's two memoranda on the case (April 15; June 5) and in his letters to Ernesto Galarza (May 6) and Leon Schachter (May 20). See also the draft of the Complaint to be filed in...
Dates:
1968
July to September, 1968, 1968
File — Reel: 55
Identifier: 2
Scope and Contents
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...
Dates:
1968
October to December, 1968, 1968
File — Reel: 55
Identifier: 3
Scope and Contents
There are additional legal papers filed in the case of Local 300 v. McCulloch (Oct. 17; Nov. 2); see also Mitchell's memorandum to lawyer Richard Sobol on his recent conversation with three South Coast Corporation sugar workers (n.d. [Nov]) and a letter from lawyer Alexander H. Schullman on the case (Dec. 13). On the current status of the negotiations between Local 300 and various menhaden fishing companies, see Mitchell to Harry R. Poole (Oct 18). There is also an interesting letter from...
Dates:
1968
No Date, 1968, 1968
File — Reel: 55
Identifier: 4
Scope and Contents
Draft of a speech by Mitchell to the Mississippi AFL-CIO on the anti-union practices of the New Orleans law firm of Kullman and Lang; magazine article by Mitchell on the STFU; Constitution and By-Laws of Local 300; Summary of survey of Louisiana sugar cane workers
Dates:
1968
Miscellaneous Union Business, 1968, 1968
File — Reel: 55
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents
Folder 1897 -- Multi-dated file of USDA regulations concerning sugar workers' wages. Folder 1898 -- Multi-dated file of contracts between the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and various California growers. Folder 1899 --Weekly reports of H.L. Mitchell. Folders 1900 and 1901 -- Not Filmed.
Dates:
1968