Reel 10

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consist of correspondence, reports, ledgers, legal documents, leaflets, printed material, photographs, and newspapers published by the union. These document the activities of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union from its origins through its transformations into the National Farm Labor Union in 1946 and the National Agriculture Workers Union in 1952, and through its merger with the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union in 1960. The records also contain selected materials from the Socialist Party...

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Folders 321 to 323 -- Not Filmed. Folder 324 -- Local Secretary's Reports (approx. ten items). Folder 325 -- Monthly Reports of Membership and Fees + attached correspondence (approx. two hundred items in rough chronological order). Note: Throughout 1938, local secretaries were required to file these reports in duplicate. The duplicates, however, have been removed from this folder and were not filmed. Folders 326 to 327 -- Not Filmed

Scope and Contents [Note: Monthly reports from local secretaries are filed in the main chronological series throughout 1939. In all other years, these items will be found in the "Miscellaneous Union Business" section.] On Jan. 1, 1700 sharecroppers evicted from their homes encamped on a US highway near Sikeston, Mo. Many of the refugees were STFU members and the demonstration was led by STFU Second Vice-President O.H. Whitfield. . The reader may follow the progress of the demonstration in a flood of telegrams...

Scope and Contents Two issues, the Missouri Highway demonstration and the battle with UCAPAWA over STFU autonomy, continued to dominate the correspondence during February. There are a number of important letters throughout the month by and about O.H. Whitfield, who shifted his support from the STFU to UCAPAWA. The papers include reports on the situation in Missouri from organizers F.R. Betton (8, 18) and J.F. Moore (12), as well as a flood of letters from the evicted sharecroppers themselves. One letter from...