March and April, 1954, 1954

The anti-trust suit filed by the Justice Department against the Louisiana Fruit and Vegetable Producers Union finally came to trial on April 28; the papers include the full transcript of the court proceedings (April 28) and a great deal of correspondence from the various lawyers involved in the case . Also running through both months is a spate of correspondence between Galarza and Mitchell on arranging a unified plan of action with the CIO and with a number of Mexican unions in an effort to stop the influx of Mexican workers into California. There is an eyewitness account by Mitchell of an incident in the US House of Representatives in which a band of Puerto Rican Nationalists went on a shooting spree and wounded several Congressmen (March 1)