June, 1936, 1936

The strike and the violence mounted by the planters to break the strike are the main issues in the papers for June. The papers include several STFU press releases on the strike and a considerable amount of correspondence between Mitchell and union members on the expenditure of strike relief funds. Friends of the union also sent STFU headquarters copies of their letters to state and Federal officials protesting the unchecked violence. There is also a discussion of plans to send a sharecropper delegation to picket Franklin D. Roosevelt on his visit to Little Rock (3 to 10). On the problems of raising funds for legal defense, see especially two letters from Professor William R. Amberson (23,37).