January, 1943, 1943

Reports from the contingent of farm workers sent to Florida began to arrive about Jan. 10 and continued almost daily thereafter. Many of the workers expressed satisfaction with what they found, but the Rev. David S. Burgess, in a five-page letter to Clinton Golden of the WMC Labor-Management Committee, depicted scenes of considerable squalor in the migrant workers' camps (19). Further shipments to Florida were delayed due to lack of housing for white workers; on this and other difficulties, see Mitchell to WMC Executive Director Arthur S. Fleming (8), Mitchell's report to the GEC on his trip to Washington (12), and his circular letter to the union's organizers (24). There are two conflicting reports on the trouble at Camp 90, McNary, Texas, one from the FSA (4) and one from J.W. Mack, the STFU representative at the camp (10). Finally, there are statements by both Mitchell and F.R. Betton on the STFU's racial policies, written in response to a query from NSW officials in Minneapolis (7,14)