December, 1938, 1938

Two conventions in one month kept the STFU membership busy during December. The UCAPAWA convention was held in San Francisco on December 12 to 16; the papers include Henderson's report to the convention (12), reports from UCAPAWA Districts 1, 2, 5, 7, and 9 (12), a resolution introduced by the STFU delegates (12), and two letters from Mitchell to Evelyn Smith describing the fate of the STFU resolution (13, 15). The STFU Fifth Annual Convention met at Cotton Plant, Arkansas on December 29 to January 1; the papers include a letter from Butler to all delegates, urging them to ignore rumors of danger at Cotton Plant (24); the program, President's Report, minutes (apparently incomplete), a mimeographed copy of the Proceedings, and a report from the STFU delegation to the UCAPAWA convention in San Francisco (29). In other matters, there is an apology and a request for reinstatement addressed to the NEC by E.B. McKinney (5), and a brief letter from Missouri organizer O.H. Whitfield warning Mitchell that 900 families facing eviction on January 1, planned to encamp on a local highway (1)