June, 1938, 1938

STFU leaders met with Henderson in Washington at the beginning of the month to iron out their differences. Henderson sent the union his understanding of the agreement finally reached (4), but Mitchell reported on the status of the negotiations to the members of the NEC (8), and, when the problems were settled, he sent out a circular letter to all STFU locals explaining that the STFU would retain its affiliation with UCAPAWA (27). Henderson's reply to Mitchell's complaints appears on July 29. The union continued to document cases of peonage in Arkansas by collecting affidavits (6,18,19,23); letters to the WDL supply additional information on the investigation (7,24). Two STFU projects got underway during June: A YM-YWCA project to bring students, both white and black, into Arkansas to give them firsthand knowledge of the lives of sharecroppers, and a project to organize the "Friends of the STFU" as part of the union's fund-raising effort