April, 1936, 1936

There is a flood of telegrams from Gardner Jackson through the first half of the month relating to the presentation of evidence of anti-union violence before the Senate Committee on Civil Liberties chaired by Robert M. La Follette, Jr. The papers also include a frequent exchange of letters between Mitchell and STFU Vice-President E.B. McKinney on McKinney's fund-raising trip to New York and on his complaints of mistreatment by his fellow STFU officers. There is a mimeographed letter from Mitchell to all locals on strike preparations (18) and a letter from Mitchell to Norman Thomas on reports that Donald Henderson was attempting to undermine the STFU leadership (27).