June, 1943, 1943

Efforts to send workers to Seabrook Farms continued, but only a handful of union members actually went. There are two reports from STFU members in New Jersey (22,24) and a letter from Hayes Beall, informing Mitchell that the company chose to employ Jamaican workers instead of southern ones (26). Lester Granger, Executive Secretary of the National Urban League, wrote about his recent conversation with one of President Roosevelt's "closest advisors" concerning the new farm labor legislation (18); see also Mitchell's lengthy reply (21). J.E. Clayton reported on his conversations with the Farm Foundation concerning the possibility of the STFU purchasing the former Lowden plantation to colonize black sharecroppers (3)