March, 1958, 1958

The papers include a number of letters from Galarza on his fight to obtain enforcement of P.L. 78 by USES and the California State Farm Placement Service; see also the letters to Congressman John F. Shelley from USES Director Robert C. Goodwin and California Regional Director Glenn Brockway on the work of the Regional Foreign Labor Operations Advisory Committee in California (7, 14). Mitchell met with AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer William F. Schnitzler on March 25 to attempt to work out a compromise with UPWA; see his eight-page memorandum on the record of the negotiations with UPWA and his reports on the Schnitzler meeting to Galarza and to the NAWU Executive Board (25, 31). Finally, there is an interesting exchange between Mitchell and former NAWU organizer Henry Pelet on the Louisiana sugar situation (20, 24).