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Scope and Contents Detailed letter from Rev. Claude C. Williams on his activities during the 1930s; "Resume of Work for the Union, 1960-1969" by Mitchell; Statement of the Parent Advisory Committee to the Tri-Parish Board on the firing of Sister Anne Catherine Bizalion as Director of the Vermillion Parish Headstart Program; speech by Sister Anne Catherine entitled "Experiments in By-Passing the Establishment"; NSF Draft Statement of Programs, Goals, and Structural Changes; materials relating to the formation...

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Folder 1943 -- Weekly organizer's reports by H.L. Mitchell. Folder 1944 -- Not Filmed

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents There is a frequent exchange of correspondence during these three months between Mitchell and AMC Secretary-Treasurer Patrick Gorman on the International's participation in a campaign to unionize Louisiana sugar cane workers; see also Gorman's memorandum on his conversation with Father Vincent J. O'Connell of Lafayette, Louisiana on the same subject (July 30). The papers include a copy of the Decision of the NLRB Trial Examiner in the Riviana Foods, Inc. case (Aug. 5), as well as the...

Scope and Contents On the continuing debate over the AMC role in organizing sugar cane workers, see Mitchell's exchanges with Gorman (Oct 2, 23; Nov 2, 10), an important exchange between AMC Vice-President Richard A. Twedell and Gorman (Oct 8, 15), and Mitchell's proposal for an organizing strategy (n.d. [Nov]). Several letters from lawyer James Youngdahl provide a running account of the progress of Local 300 v. McCulloch, the suit filed to test the constitutionality of excluding farm workers from the National...