September, 1938, 1938

Claude Williams was "tried" before a meeting of the NEC on Sept. 16 and 17; four different copies of the minutes appear in the papers (a summary version, a typed copy, a handwritten copy, and a mimeographed copy of the trial portion of the meeting), as well as two press releases on the case (16, 17). See also a letter from J. Austin Beasley, a UCAPAWA official from Colorado, protesting the treatment of Williams (18) and Butler's reply (20). In a letter to all locals, Mitchell announced a "Stay Out of the Fields" strike to demand $1.00 per hundred for cotton picking (19). Other items relating to the strike include: an appeal to the friends of the union for strike funds (20); returns from an STFU survey of wages paid on various plantations and of the number of workers on strike (24); and a press release announcing the end of the strike (Oct. 1)