Reel 31

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 On October 10, STFU filed a petition for injunction in Federal District Court to restrain the Arkansas USDA Wage Board from setting a wage ceiling of $2.05 per hundred for cotton picking; a copy of the petition and anSTFU press release about it appear at that date. Further information on the wage ceiling fight can be found in the correspondence K.T. Sutton and in a letter from F.R. Betton, who claimed that white tenants at Cotton Plant were so infuriated at the ceiling that they planned to...

Scope and Contents After several months of struggle, David Burgess finally concluded arrangements for the purchase of the Delmo Homes through Sherwood Eddy's Co-operative Foundation in New York; the papers include the draft and final copy of Eddy's bid to the FSA (1,3). The STFU petition for injunction in the wage ceiling dispute was dismissed in Federal Court; on this matter see K.T. Sutton to Mitchell, explaining the court's action (10), as well as a WDL memorandum to Sutton, pointing out defects in the...

Scope and Contents The Twelfth Annual STFU Convention was held at St. Louis, Mo. on December 11 to 13; the papers include the program, a typed copy of the Proceedings, a handwritten list of delegates and visitors, the report of the Executive Council, and a two-page telegram from Gardner Jackson to the convention (11). There is also a lengthy letter from Jackson to Mitchell on the wage ceiling problem (18), as well as one from Mitchell to the NAACP on the same subject (7). There is a detailed letter from...

Scope and Contents Memorandum from Mitchell to David Burgess on "Early Organization in Southeast Missouri"; Agreements between the STFU and the Edgar F. Hurff Co., the P.J. Ritter Co., the Basic Vegetable Co., and the California Conserving Co.; an STFU press release on the Delmo Labor Homes campaign; letters from Mississippi organizer B.J. Bennett; a two-page questionnaire completed by Charlie Smith on his settlement with his landlord; approximately 25 pages of handwritten notes by David Burgess, dealing...

Scope and Contents Folders 1096 to 1098 -- Correspondence from college students concerning summer jobs. Folder 1110 -- Not Filmed. Folders 1111 to 1115 -- Monthly reports from locals, 1945. Folder 1116 -- Bonds submitted by local secretaries -- one sample filmed. Folder 1117 -- Charter applications, 1945. Folder 1119 -- Lists of local STFU officers and officer election forms, 1945. Folder 1121 -- Not Filmed. Folder 1123 -- Landlord-tenant contracts. Folder 1124 -- Auditor's Report, Nov. 1, 1944 to Oct. 31,...