September, 1939, 1939

Union member in Southeast Missouri were eager to stage a cotton-pickers' strike, but the STFU leadership decided against it. The reader may follow the debate in the heavy correspondence between headquarters and the STFU field staff (13 to 22), and in two long letters the STFU field staff (13 to 22), and in two long letters explaining the decision against the strike by Butler (22) and Blaine Treadway (23). The NEC met on Sept. 9; the papers include the "opening Remarks", presumably by Butler (9), and the resolutions passed by the Council (10), but the minutes do not appear. Finally, there is a copy of the Constitution of the Farm Workers Allied Union of California (7), and a communication from Frank McCallister on the possibility of arranging a separate CIO character for the STFU (5).