August, 1939, 1939

With Mitchell working full-time for the National Youth Administration in North Carolina, three members of the NEC wrote Butler suggesting that Mitchell resign as STFU Secretary. Butler informed Mitchell about this and other recent developments (9, 12, 16), but Mitchell refused to resign 914,15). See also F.R. Betton's comments on the dispute (26). A bitter personal controversy arose among the STFU organizers in Oklahoma; one can follow it in the letters of Henry Pippin, Guy Thomas, and W.R. Purcells. Also, in relation to Oklahoma, there are no less than seven letters from former state President Odis L. Sweeden asking Butler to rehire him as an organizer. Butler wrote all locals, asking them to fill out a questionnaire form on the desirability of holding a wage scale conference; Butler also wrote Mitchell on the same day explaining why he opposed such a conference (14). Other items of special interest include: Blaine Treadway to the Farm Workers' Allied Union on possible affiliation (8); and the typescript of a magazine article "Recent Activities of the STFU" by Butler (13)