May, 1944, 1944

Recruiting college students for jobs in New Jersey is the main topic in the papers this month; see especially two memoranda by Mitchell on this subject (13,21). There is a particularly interesting exchange between Mitchell and Leon Schachter on the opposition of Memphis officials of the War Manpower Commission to the STFU's labor recruitment program (1,3,5) and between Mitchell and the Commission on the opening of four prisoner of war camps in Crittenden County, Ark. (13,26). Mitchell also initiated correspondence with state secretaries of the National Farmers' Union in the West and Mid-West in his effort to find seasonal jobs for union members outside the South.