January and February, 1958, 1958

Plans developed rapidly for the survey proposed to Walter Reuther in December; see the memoranda by Mitchell and by the ad hoc committee to Reuther (Jan 6, 18), and Mitchell to Galarza on his conversation with Victor Reuther about the study (Feb 4). With the aid of Congressman James Roosevelt, the union attempted to obtain a Congressional investigation of alleged racketeering in the Mexican labor import program; for information on this campaign, see especially Galarza to Mitchell (Jan. 19), Mitchell to Nelson Cruikshank (Jan. 28), and an NAWU press release and memorandum on the proposed investigation (Feb. 17). There is a statement by NAWU organizer Raul M. Aguilar, who was refused work by an employer after being referred by the local Farm Placement Office (Jan 17), and two memoranda by Galarza on future organizing plans in California (Jan 28, Feb 27). On the continuing dispute with UPWA, see the formal NAWU complaint filed before the AFL-CIO No-Raiding Impartial Umpire (Jan 23), the correspondence between Mitchell and organizer George Stith on UPWA activity among Louisiana sugar workers, and Mitchell to Walter P. Reuther on the dispute (Feb 22)