January to March, 1950, 1950

The Sixteenth Annual Convention was held at Fresno, California from January 13 to 15; the papers include the complete Proceedings, and the amended Constitution. There are a number of letters, press releases, and reports from Galarza throughout this period on the problems of 100,000 unemployed farm workers in California; see especially his radio address on this subject (March 28). A majority report of the House Education and Labor Sub-Committee on the Di Giorgio strike issued over the signature of Cong. Richard M. Nixon appears on March 9; the minority report appears in the undated section at the end of 1950. On Nixon's role in writing the report, see a letter from Alexander Schullman to Mitchell (March 18). There is a seven-page report from California organizer Hank Hasiwar on the Imperial Valley (Jan. 25) and an exchange between Mitchell and Schullman about setting up a voter registration drive among Florida citrus workers to aid the re-election of Senator Claude Pepper (March 6, 9).