September, 1936, 1936

Governor Futrell's Commission on Farm Tenancy met at Hot Springs on September 21; see the STFU Statement to the Commission which appears on that date. Other topics in the papers include the speaking tours of Socialist Party candidates Norman Thomas and George A. Nelson, including Thomas' Memphis speech entitled "Arkansas Shame" (17), the STFU claim that WPA officials were dropping workers from the relief rolls in an attempt to drive down Arkansas plantation wages, and arrangements with the Workers Defense League (formerly the Labor and Socialist Defense Committee) to handle STFU legal problems. There are letters from union members A.B. Brookins and J.F. Lee, recounting the violence they have experienced (7).