March and April, 1953, 1953

Mitchell spent most of March in Havana, Cuba, serving as AFL representative to the World Conference on Plantation Workers sponsored by the International Labor Organization. There are no papers from the Conference itself, but there are three drafts of reports on what transpired, including two by Mitchell (n.d. [March], April 30) and one by Clara M. Beyer, Associate Director of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Standards (April 21). The NAWU San Joaquin Valley Council began to become active again after the shake-up of the previous November; see the minutes and bulletins issued by the Council (March 1, 8, n.d. [March], April 12). On union activity in the Imperial Valley, see the gloomy reports of Ernesto Galarza (March 5, 17; April 29)