September, 1943, 1943

Dissension developed among the staff members of the Spruce Pine Co-operative store, and Mitchell and STFU President Roy E. Raley attempted to straighten things out. The first STFU local in New Mexico, located at Las Cruces, began to become active. The reader may follow the progress of the Las Cruces local through the correspondence of organizer G.W. Holsome. See especially Mitchell to Holsome, proposing that the union buy some surplus land near Las Cruces for the purpose of colonizing black farm workers (17). Finally there is a long letter from David A. Munro describing the situation of farm labor in California (21).