March, 1945, 1945

As David Burgess reported to Mitchell early in the month, the Farm Security Administration had decided to sell at auction the Delmo Labor Homes Project in Southeast Missouri which had been built five years earlier to house evicted tenant families (8). An intensive campaign got underway immediately to save the Delmo homes, a campaign which might best be followed in the correspondence and reports of David Burgess. On this subject, see also Mitchell to Alfred Baker Lewis (19), the Minutes of the Tenants' Committee at Delmo (20), and a report on a delegation of Delmo tenants which went to Washington to meet with FSA officials (31). Readers wishing to keep track of the shipments of STFU workers might consult the "Schedule of Seasonal Work Orders", which includes information on the dates of employment, pay promised, and number of workers to be sent (20). Finally, the union once again began to recruit black college students for summer jobs at the Deerfield Packing Co. in Bridgeton, NJ; a memorandum on the agreement with Deerfield appears on March 24