May, 1943, 1943

Chester A. Davis, War Food Administrator, spelled out the government's new policy on transporting agricultural labor in a letter to Mitchell (21). Mitchell explained the STFU viewpoint in a six-page memorandum to various officials in Washington entitled, "Factors in the Farm Labor Crisis" (15; note: this is an approximate date). See also his statement before the House Committee Investigating the Farm Security Administration (27). Toward the end of the month, there is a correspondence about sending 500 workers to the Seabrook Farms Company in Bridgeton, N.J. Also of special interest are: two letters from K.T. Sutton on his attempt to set aside the result of an election in Edmondson, Ark., and the court petition filed in the case (3,4); a memorandum from Mitchell to Harold Oram on setting up a National Sharecroppers Fund (8), and correspondence about the initiation of an STFU cooperative store at Spruce Pine, Ala