October, 1944, 1944

As the end of cotton picking season approached, the STFU tried to find temporary jobs for southern workers in Louisville, Ky. and with the Basic Vegetable Co. in Vacaville, Calif.; neither project ever materialized. Mitchell wrote to ex-FSA official Hayes Beall in Washington on winter job prospects in Florida (23), and Beall wrote directly to David Burgess, as Mitchell requested, outlining the possibilities (25). Much of the correspondence has to do with preparations for the forthcoming STFU convention, including draft copies of parts of the Executive Council Report entitled: "The March of the Machines on the Land", "Organized Migration", "Relations to Government Agencies and Other Organizations", and "Consumer Cooperatives for Farm Workers" (30).