April to June, 1963, 1963

Legal papers relating to the unfair labor practice charge with Local 300 filed against the Sweetlake Land and Oil Co. appear on April 4 and 5 and on May 7 and 28. Mitchell's correspondence with the NSF on a proposed training program for sugar cane workers continues through June; see also his letter to NSF Executive Secretary Fay Bennett on the completion of a survey of sugar workers which the NSF financed (May 8). The main activity of Local 300 this Spring was the organizing drive among menhaden fisherman. Mitchell detailed the progress of the campaign in his letters to Patrick Gorman; see also the exchange between lawyer James Youngdahl and Mitchell on strategy before the NLRB in a dispute with the Louisiana Menhaden Co. (May 27, 28).