March, 1944, 1944

The STFU began sending workers to the F.H. Leggett Co. of Landisville, New Jersey, as well as to the Hurff Co. Leon Schachter wrote Mitchell at length on other job possibilities for southern workers in New Jersey (17). The union's new program came in for some criticism by Rev. David S. Burgess, a friend of the union in New York, and Mitchell wrote Burgess explaining the rationale for the "organized migration" (18). Lastly, there is an especially interesting letter from Mitchell to A. Philip Randolph on the subject of anti-black sentiment among AF of L officials in Memphis (9)