May and June, 1955, 1955

The papers for May contain four important reports by Ernesto Galarza on: a special meeting of the "Bishop's Committee on Spanish Speaking" in Corpus Christi, Texas (4); the raiding operations of UPWA in California and Louisiana (4); the present status of the "wetback" problem (9), and on the organization of sugar and pineapple workers in Hawaii (28). Mitchell attempted to raise funds for a campaign to organize the rice industry in Louisiana, see his memorandum on this subject (May 19) and his letter to Frank P. Graham (June 9). Mitchell gives a detailed account of the problems of organizing sugar workers in a letter to Harry Poole, Vice-President of the Meat Cutter's Union (June 3). See also his letter to Victor Reuther and his memorandum to UPWA proposing a joint organizing drive in Louisiana (June 21, 27).