November and December, 1961, 1961

The campaign to organize Louisiana rice mill workers at Lake Charles and at Crowley continued through the end of the year; see Mitchell's reports to Harry F. Poole (Nov 9) and Patrick Gorman (Nov 27; Dec 11, 14), the correspondence with organizer Gene Collins at Crowley, and the returns of a survey of "seasonal" employees of the Louisiana State Rice Milling Co., filed at the end of December. Information on the survey of Louisiana sugar cane workers appears in the exchange between Mitchell and LSU economist Ray Marshall (Nov 3; Dec 5, 11) and in the reports of Frank Lapeyrolerie