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Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Mitchell's letters to Patrick Gorman (Aug 16, 23; Sept 2; Oct 31) and to AMC Executive Vice-President Harry Poole (Oct 2, 17, 26) again provide a running account of the rice mill organizing campaign. The NSF Board of Directors decided to approve Mitchell's request for a survey of sugar cane workers; see the letter from NSF Executive Secretary Fay Bennett announcing the Board's action (Aug. 1), and the correspondence from Frank Lapeyrolerie, a former NAWU organizer assigned to carry out the...

Scope and Contents 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...

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Draft of an NSF "White Paper" on the "Present Situation and Suggested Program for Southern Sharecroppers"; a "short report" on job discrimination against black workers in Memphis, Tennessee; materials relating to the rice mill workers organizing campaign, including flyers, lists, etc

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Folder 1621a -- Survey of Louisiana sugar cane workers -- nine completed returns and several working papers. Folder 1621b -- Organizer's reports of H.L. Mitchell. Folder 1622 -- Local 300 organizer's reports, exclusive of H.L. Mitchell. Folders 1623 to 1629 -- Not Filmed.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consist of correspondence, reports, ledgers, legal documents, leaflets, printed material, photographs, and newspapers published by the union. These document the activities of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union from its origins through its transformations into the National Farm Labor Union in 1946 and the National Agriculture Workers Union in 1952, and through its merger with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1960. The records also contain selected materials from the Socialist Party...