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Scope and Contents The papers include the key legal documents in five cases placed before the NLRB by Local 300. In the Borden Co. case, see the Complaint on the Conduct of An Election filed by the union (Oct. 1), the Brief of the NLRB General Counsel on the union's charge of unfair labor practices against the company (Nov 23), and the NLRB Intermediate Report on the case (Dec 6). There is a copy of the NLRB decision to hold an election in the Louisiana Rice Growers, Inc. case (Oct 5), as well as the union's...

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Organizer's report (no name or date); "Report on the Sugar Cane Plantation Worker Survey in Louisiana"; survey of unorganized workers in the food, agricultural, and allied industries in Lake Charles, Louisiana; file of correspondence between the Louisiana Rice Growers, Inc. and the NLRB, 1954-1956; survey of regular and seasonal employees of the Louisiana State Rice Milling Co. at Lake Charles, Louisiana

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Folder 1567 -- not filmed

Scope and Contents Local 300 attempted to organize a group of egghouse workers at the corporation farm of the Sweetlake Land and Oil Co. near Lake Charles, but the union drive stalled when the employer insisted that his employees were agricultural workers and did not come under the NLRB jurisdiction. On the Sweetlake case, see Mitchell's memorandum on the NLRB hearings (Jan 22), the various briefs filed in the case (Feb 4), the NLRB decision (Feb 11), and the tally of ballots in the NLRB election (March 4)....

Scope and Contents 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...

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...