July, 1938, 1938

Mitchell represented the STFU on the President's National Emergency Council in Washington; the papers include his statement (5) and a report to Butler on his trip (6). Two weeks later, a letter went out to members of the NEC informing them that black STFU Vice-President E.B. McKinney was attempting to split the union along racial lines (18). McKinney, writing to Wiley Harris, a black organizer, claimed on the contrary that white leaders had no concern for the welfare of black members (29). Mitchell wrote two long letters to Gardner Jackson, one giving an account of the battle with UCAPAWA (9) and the other on plans to organize a chapter of Labor's Non-Partisan League in Arkansas (18). Odis Sweeden voiced the complaints of the Oklahoma STFU against Memphis Headquarters in two detailed letters (22 and 23). Finally, there is a mimeographed letter from Mitchell to all locals on preparing for the upcoming primary elections (n.d. [July, 1938])