July, 1939, 1939

Mitchell and F.R. Betton attended a conference in Mexico, called by Clarence Senior, to study the experiment in cooperative farming underway in the Laguna Region; the papers include a prospectus on the conference and a seven-page mimeographed report by the STFU delegation (6). There is also an extensive report from Priscilla Robertson, a friend of the union, on the Poplar Bluff camp in Missouri (5). The STFU initiated a workers' education project during July; one may follow its progress through the correspondence of Blaine Treadway, STFU Education Director. Toward the end of the month, there is a letter from the National Federation of Colored Farmers, turning down an STFU offer for affiliation (26), and a letter from Mitchell to former CIO official Barney Egan on reorganizing the STFU in Texas (26)