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Scope and Contents Nearly all of the activity of Local 300 was devoted to the organizing drive in the menhaden fishing industry during this summer. There are legal papers relating to disputes between the union and the Louisiana Menhaden Co. (July 29; Sept 23) and the Fish Meal and Oil Co. and Quinn Menhaden Fisheries, Inc. (Sept. 11, 27). See also the tally of ballots in the various NLRB elections held on the fishing boats (Aug 20; Sept 21). The union filed an unfair labor practice charges against the...

Scope and Contents The organizing drive in the menhaden fishing industry continued with a series of NLRB elections and legal wrangles. Ballot tallies appear on October 18, 22 and 23. There are memoranda by Mitchell on the Louisiana Menhaden Co. case (Oct 10) and on "NLRB Elections on Menhaden Fishing Botes in Louisiana" (Oct 25) . The union filed unfair labor charges against several fishing companies; see the affidavits collected from fishermen to document the charges (Nov 14, 21) and Mitchell's letters to...

Scope and Contents Office Diary of H.L. Mitchell; letters from Eugene Cox; Report by Mitchell on "Carrier Boats of the Menhaden Fishing Industry"; two proposals for an on-the-job training program in farm machinery for Louisiana sugar workers; proposed contracts with menhaden fishing companies; Xerox copies of documents relating to the unionization of the menhaden fishing industry in 1963 [Note: several of these items are dated and may be duplicated in the regular chronological series]; lists of employees of...

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Folder 1704e -- 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...