November and December, 1951, 1951

On Nov. 5, the Department of Labor wrote Mitchell to answer various questions he had submitted on the Mexican labor importation program; on Dec. 19, he sent the Department a memorandum on the changes the NFLU desired in the program. The Seventeenth Annual Convention was held in Memphis on December 8 and 9; the papers include the full proceedings, the Report of the National Executive Board, and the revised Constitution (Dec. 8). There is a letter from Mitchell to AFL President William Green suggesting possible AFL representatives for the new Farm Labor Advisory Council being set up by the Department of Labor (Nov. 19).