July and August, 1953, 1953

There is a memorandum from NAWU lawyer Daniel H. Pollitt on the negotiations with the Department of Justice to delay the anti- trust case (Aug. 10); see also the copy of the indictment (July 29). Beginning on July 29, there is a three-cornered exchange between the Louisiana Sugar Workers Union, the Louisiana State Department of Labor and various sugar companies on the subject of arranging bargaining sessions between the union and the growers. On the sugar workers campaign, see also a statement from Hank Hasiwar to the USDA on fair minimum wage rates fro Louisiana sugar workers (July 16), and a five-page letter from Hasiwar to Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel of New Orleans giving a detailed account of the controversy (Aug. 28). On the campaign to stop the importation of Mexican contract Nationals into California, see Mitchell's report on his meeting with officials of the Mexican Federation of Labor (Aug. 6), his letter to Attorney General Herbert Brownell (Aug. 19), and a 33-page NAWU report on "The Use of Contract Nationals and Its Effects on the Employment of Domestic Agricultural Workers in the Imperial Valley of California" (n.d. [August])