January, 1944, 1944

The STFU kept in close touch with the Hurff Company and with Leon Schachter about the workers already sent to New Jersey and about possible future shipments. There is a copy of the minutes of the STFU grievance committee at the company (13). Vice-Presidents J.E. Clayton and F.R. Betton journeyed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, to explore their colonization scheme; the papers include a formal joint report on their meeting with the Las Cruces leaders (6) and their respective reports to Mitchell (9, 13). On the situation in Las Cruces, see also a long letter from Paul Dennie to Clayton (18). Union members at the Dyess Colony sent a number of letters to organizer Bill Johnson, complaining about conditions at the settlement (24, 26, 27)