August to December, 1947, 1947

On September 2, there is a memorandum to the Robert Marshall Civil Liberties Trust Fund proposing a survey of the civil liberties of migratory farm workers to be conducted by Ernesto Galarza. Virtually all the correspondence from October through December concerns the strike of 1,200 workers at the Di Giorgio Ranch in Bakersfield, Calif., called by the NFLU with the aid of the California Federation of Labor. There are frequent mimeographed strike bulletins, as well as a list of donors to the strike relief fund (Dec. 18), and an anti-union booklet prepared by the Special Citizens Committee Investigating Di Giorgio Farms (Dec. 17). Finally, the Fourteenth Annual Convention was held at Little Rock, Ark. on December 12 to 14; the papers include a magazine article by Mitchell on the convention, the report of the Executive Council, the program, the resolutions passed, and the NFLU Constitution (Dec. 12)