July to September, 1962, 1962

For the remainder of the year, Local 300 became mired in litigation before the NLRB. Most of the litigation concerned the unsuccessful attempt to organize the Borden Co. dairy plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana; copies of the various legal papers filed by the company, the union, and the NLRB itself appear throughout this three month period. There is also a generous sample of the anti-union flyers which the company sent its employees shortly before the election (Sept 12 to 21). On the other cases before the Board, see the NLRB decision in the Sweetlake Land and Oil Co. case, in which the Board held that employees of the firm were not agricultural workers and hence came under NLRB jurisdiction (Aug. 15), and the union's Complaint on the Conduct of An Election in the Rice By-Products Co. case (Aug. 31). For an overview of the litigation, see Mitchell's exchange of correspondence with lawyer James Youngdahl (Aug. 29; Sept 3, 6, 10). There is also a four-page report by Mitchell summarizing his first year of work in Louisiana (Aug 15).