May, 1940, 1940

May was a month of rebuilding for the union. Letters went out to all state organizers, commenting on the problems in their respective states (1). The DCF investigating committee met on May 10 and issued a report (11). There is an especially interesting exchange of letters between Mitchell and Butler, with Mitchell insisting upon a campaign to organize migrant workers as a means of reviving the union (14, 17, 23, 25); see also Mitchell's attempt to write a life history of a migrant worker 921). Two letters appear from Constance Rumbough, Southern Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, on initiating a campaign against the poll tax in Tennessee (6, 10).