March and April, 1955, 1955

The forthcoming AFL-CIO merger was very much on the minds of the NAWU leadership; see the memorandum by Galarza on this subject (March 10), a set of notes on a conversation with AFL Secretary-Treasurer William F. Schnitzler on the NAWU's problems (March 24), and a petition from the NAWU Executives Board to the AFL asking for a clarification of the union's status under the merger (April 3). There are three letters from Daniel Pollitt on the difficulties of appealing the Godchaux Sugars case to the Supreme Court (March 2; April 6, 26). The papers include the minutes of a meeting of the US Section of the Joint U.S.-Mexican Trade Union Committee, as well as a copy of a long letter by Milton Plumb, Secretary of the Committee, explaining its plans to cope with the "wetback" problem (March 3; April 21)