Reel 20

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 Survey of wages and food prices in Missouri, 1940-1941; Agreement between Local 56 of the AMCBWNA and the P.J. Ritter Co. of Bridgeton, N.J.; proposal for a Missouri Agricultural Workers Council, most likely written by O.H. Whitfield; letter to Secretary of Agricultural Claude R. Wickard, suggesting that he appoint James P. Davis of the AAA office at Little Rock as his "Negro assistant"; flyers for STFU mass meetings; notes for a speech by Mitchell at the Hod Carriers' Union Annual...

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Folders 658 and 659 -- Not Filmed. Folder 660 -- Monthly reports of locals. Folder 661 -- Charter Applications. Folders 662 to 675 -- Organizers' weekly reports

Scope and Contents Papers for the Eighth Annual STFU Convention, held at Sheffield, Alabama on Jan. 7 to 10, are far more extensive than the papers for previous conventions. They include the program, list of delegates, reports from Butler , Betton, Mitchell, and J.F. Hynds (on his work settling claims against the AAA), the "STFU Sign Manual and Ritual", approximately fifty resolutions passed at the convention, including one on the retirement of J.R. Butler as STFU President, and a thoroughly revised union...

Scope and Contents The investigation into the violence at Caruthersville, Mo. continued throughout February and might best be followed through the letters of Frank McCallister, Secretary of the Southern WDL. In this connection, see also Mitchell to McCallister, providing good background information on the incident (3) and an exchange between STFU lawyer Claude Cooper and Gov. Donnell of Missouri (12, 27). There is a statement from Mitchell to the Joint Legislative Economy Committee (U.S. Congress) arguing...