March, 1938, 1938

National Sharecroppers Week was held from March 6 to 13; papers relating to it include a WDL leaflet (6), a report from Butler to Harriet Young on his NSW trip to the Mid-west (17), and a statement of receipts and disbursements from the WDL (29). Trouble continued in Jefferson County, and Ark. organizer D.A. Griffin reported on it at length (28). The STFU sent a copy of an anti-war resolution passed at its convention to a number of US Senators (24) and several replied (29 and 30). Other items of interest include: two press releases on the Texas Pecan Shellers Union strike in San Antonio (2, 19); two letters from Mitchell to organizers Steve Lucas and Fred Matthews on the status of the union in Mississippi and Texas, respectively (9,20); a dispute between Mitchell and Donald Henderson over dues payments (19, 23); correspondence with Harriet Young on a proposed WDL campaign against peonage (25 to 28); a long letter from lawyer C.A. Stanfield reviewing the various legal cases pending for the union (29); Mitchell to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, complaining about planter violations of the 1938 cotton control program (30); and Evelyn Smith to Donald Henderson, explaining why all letters sent to STFU members must be mailed in plain envelopes without any use of titles in the address (2).