Reel 16

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...

Scope and Contents There is an interesting exchange between Butler and Mitchell on Butler's proposal for bringing agricultural workers under the NLRB (Nov. 4,7). The only other issue of special interest is a campaign by the WDL to abolish the Virginia poll tax and to free Odell Waller, a black Virginia sharecropper sentenced to death for the murder of his landlord. The papers include various leaflets and WDL press releases on the Waller case (Nov. 9, 15; Dec. 18, 21), as well as a letter from WDL staff member...

Scope and Contents Childhood Days, a 15-page typewritten account of his childhood and early career by H.L. Mitchell; a press release on the STFU memorandum to the FSA on the Poplar Bluff encampment; a memorandum to the Finance Committee of the ILGWU from J.R. Butler; legal papers relating to the Dyess Colony, including the articles of incorporation for both Dyess and the Missco Homestead Association; memorandum from J.L. Cummins to Brooks Hays on the mismanagement of Missco Homestead; STFU statement, probably...

Scope and Contents Folder 542 -- Complaints to the AAA. Folder 543 -- Materials written for the STFU Educational Program. Includes primarily instructional booklets written by Evelyn Smith. Folder 554 -- Testimony of various public figures before the House Committee on the Interstate Migration, Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 19 and 20, 1940. No STFU representatives appeared. Folder 557 -- Not Filmed. Folder 558 -- Returns from the 1940 Crop Survey. Folder 559 -- List of members in good standing as reported by the...