Reel 12

Scope and Contents Mitchell and F.R. Betton attended a conference in Mexico, called by Clarence Senior, to study the experiment in cooperative farming underway in the Laguna Region; the papers include a prospectus on the conference and a seven-page mimeographed report by the STFU delegation (6). There is also an extensive report from Priscilla Robertson, a friend of the union, on the Poplar Bluff camp in Missouri (5). The STFU initiated a workers' education project during July; one may follow its progress...

Scope and Contents With Mitchell working full-time for the National Youth Administration in North Carolina, three members of the NEC wrote Butler suggesting that Mitchell resign as STFU Secretary. Butler informed Mitchell about this and other recent developments (9, 12, 16), but Mitchell refused to resign 914,15). See also F.R. Betton's comments on the dispute (26). A bitter personal controversy arose among the STFU organizers in Oklahoma; one can follow it in the letters of Henry Pippin, Guy Thomas, and W.R....

Scope and Contents Union member in Southeast Missouri were eager to stage a cotton-pickers' strike, but the STFU leadership decided against it. The reader may follow the debate in the heavy correspondence between headquarters and the STFU field staff (13 to 22), and in two long letters the STFU field staff (13 to 22), and in two long letters explaining the decision against the strike by Butler (22) and Blaine Treadway (23). The NEC met on Sept. 9; the papers include the "opening Remarks", presumably by Butler...

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...