August to October, 1958, 1958

On Mitchell's trip to California, see his lengthy report to the NAWU Executive Board (Sept. 18) and his exchange with BES Director Robert C. Goodwin (Aug. 1, 8). Galarza, meanwhile, had become involved in the intense political campaign underway in California; the papers include a press release charging Governor Knight with duplicity in his policies toward agricultural workers (Aug. 20) and various items relating to the campaign to defeat Proposition 18, described as a Right-to-Work Law in disguise (Aug. 10; n.d. [Oct]). There is an NSF press release on the formation of a new National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor (Oct. 20), and a long letter from Frank L. Noakes, Chairman of the US Section, Joint US-Mexican Trade Union Committee, to Secretary of Labor Mitchell protesting the lack of compliance machinery in the Mexican Labor Import Program (Aug. 29)