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WETBACKS c, THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 18, 1949 MEMORANDUM FOR: Honorable David H. Stowe Dear Dave: : H. L. Mitchell came in Thursday afternoon with a delegation of five members of the Citrus Workers and Food Processors Union, A.F.L., who are asking for better enforcement of the agreement between the United States and Mexico, covering temporary agricultural workers, and, in addition, for a Congressional or Presidential commission of inquiry on living conditions in the Rio Grande Valley. They have seen people in both the U.S. Employment Service and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and left with me a copy of the attached memorandum. Dhich Roman ARCHIVES TRUMAN, STRATIONAS REÇOR SERVICE PHILLEO NASH 55 GOVERNA Attachment. (net by D. Stowe 11/23/49)