December, 1937, 1937

Replies to Mitchell's relief survey began arriving about the first of the month. Correspondence with UCAPAWA over administrative problems continued, and there is also a descriptive listing of all correspondence between the STFU and UCAPAWA from July 19 to Dec. 31, 1937 (31). Unusually heavy correspondence from Odis L. Sweeden appears in the papers, mainly on the subject of accelerating the effort of Pioneer Youth of America, Inc. to distribute Christmas toys to sharecropper children. There are also several individual items of particular interest: a letter to the ACLU on the case of Laurent Frantz, a representative of the People's Rights Committee arrested in Memphis (8); a letter from Barney Egan, Regional Director of the CIO, describing a meeting of black farmers held at Littig, Texas by J.E. Clayton (17), and one from Clayton, suggesting strategy for organizing black workers in the South (28); a call for an emergency session of the NEC to act on reports of internal subversion of locals in Cross and Crittenden Counties, Ark. (21); Henderson to Butler on organizer's credentials, listing all district organizers appointed to date (21); and a letter from Kester, suggesting ways to improve the forthcoming STFU convention (24).