May, 1952, 1952

A meeting took place on May 6 between Schenley officials and the union; for two distinctly different accounts of the meeting, see both a letter from the company to William Green and a report from organizer Bill Becker (7). There is also a report on the number of union members at the Schenley Ranch (1). AF of L Southern Director of Organization J.L. Rhodes served as a labor representative at the negotiations with Mexico on the renewal of the Migratory Labor Agreement; the papers include his formal report (23) and a copy of his personal report to William Green (20). There is an exchange between George Forstall, Secretary-Treasurer of the Louisiana Fruit and Vegetable Producers Union, and Mitchell over a Justice Department investigation to determine if the union's co-operative marketing scheme for strawberries violated the anti-trust laws (22, 28). Toward the end of the month, tension began to build once again in the Imperial Valley of California; see the correspondence from Galarza (26,29,31) and his report on the situation (24)