November, 1943, 1943

The Tenth Annual STFU Convention was held at Memphis on November 9 to 11; the papers include a set of resolutions, an address by Charles D. Lewis, Director of the East Central Division of the AAA, and a report by Mitchell. The Proceedings do not appear. The most important resolution passed called for STFU representation on the WMC Regional Labor Management Committees; Clinton S. Golden, Vice-Chairman of the WMC, wrote to explain why this was not possible (29). Other correspondence is largely devoted to plans for sending 150 workers to the E.J. Hurff Co. in Swedesboro, New Jersey. There is also a good deal of correspondence on the case of Tee Davis, a black union member from Edmondson, Ark., convicted of shooting with intent to kill. For a detailed explanation of the case, which concerned the absence of black people on Arkansas juries, see the letter from union attorney K.T. Sutton to Mitchell dated October 12