April, 1938, 1938

The tensions between the STFU and UCAPAWA intensified into a full-scale battle during April and May, with key STFU leaders determined to take their organization out of the International. One can trace this development in the papers, beginning with the call for an emergency meeting of the NEC (18), and continuing with the Minutes of the Convention of the Oklahoma STFU, which passed a special resolution on affiliation with UCAPAWA (23). There is a 2-page typescript, giving a brief history of the relations between the STFU and UCAPAWA (25), apparently related to the NEC emergency session, for which full Minutes appear (25). Finally, there is an incomplete set of Minutes of the International Executive Board meeting marked "Not Released" (29). Complaints to WPA over the work relief program continued (5, 14), and the agency replied to one earlier STFU complaint (19). Mitchell also telegrammed Secretary Henry A. Wallace again about the unfair cotton contracts circulating in the Delta (4), and Sam Franklin at the DCF sent the union further information on these contracts (7)