October, 1936, 1936

The first half of the month was relatively quiet for the STFU. The union filed a Supplementary Statement to Gov. Futrell's Commission (10), and a similar commission in Oklahoma issued a report of its proceedings (22). Mitchell wrote organizer Roy Morelock to explain the new system of record keeping adopted by the union (13). During the second half of October, two major issues developed: the complaint of organizer L.N. Sybert that white union officials were not fair in their treatment of black members, and the charges made by US District Attorney Fred Isgrig concerning an STFU fund-raising letter sent out by the Workers Defense League in New York (24, 29 to 31). The papers include a letter from Mitchell to the WDL listing the status of the various court cases the union was currently involved in (21); a mimeographed letter from Howard Kester to the union membership explaining the work of the Central Defense Committee and appealing to them for funds (26); an AF of L resolution endorsing the STFU (28); and a "Calendar of Events" describing the battles of the STFU from the strike of May 18 through the Isgrig incident in October (n.d.[October]).