May to July, 1961, 1961

For a running account of the progress of the organizing campaign among Louisiana rice mill workers, see Mitchell's letters to Schachter (May 22) and to AMC Secretary-Treasurer Patrick Gorman (May 29; June 9, 26; July 30). The papers also include a set of flyers handed out to the rice workers (May 22, n.d. [May]) and a letter from the NLRB Regional Office on the eligibility of seasonal rice workers in NLRB elections (June 29). Gorman and Mitchell kept up an exchange of correspondence throughout these three months on the collapse of the AWOC in California and on the attempts of the Teamsters Union to organize California agricultural workers. Finally, there is a memorandum from Mitchell to Gorman on the background of the National Farm Organization and on the difficulties of organizing small farmers (March 9)