December, 1957, 1957

The reader may follow the progress of the attempt to re-organize Sugar Workers Local 1422 through the frequent reports of George Stith (3 to 14). There is a series of letters from Galarza to California Governor Goodwin J. Knight on specific violations of the US-Mexican International Agreement in the San Joaquin Valley (3 to 7); see also the reply from H.W. Stewart, Director of the California State Department of Employment (16). At the AFL-CIO Annual Convention in Atlantic City, Frank P. Graham called together a group of high-level labor leaders and proceeded to lecture them on the importance of organizing agricultural workers. Dr. Graham's talk inspired A. Philip Randolph, Leon Schachter, and ILGWU Vice-President Charles S. Zimmerman to write a memorandum to Walter P. Reuther proposing a survey on the prospects for organizing farm labor (12); see also Mitchell's account of the meeting in his letter to Father Donald McDonnell (17)