November, 1944, 1944

The Eleventh Annual STFU Convention was held in Little Rock on November 14 to 17; the papers include a "Program and Budget for the Year 1944" and a list of delegates and visitors, but no Proceedings or other report of what took place. There is a 13-page report by Leon Schachter entitled "The First Organized Migration of Union Labor" submitted to the Executive Board of the Meat Cutters Union (19). During the first week of the month, there is an exchange between Mitchell and the War Manpower Commission in which Mitchell accused the WMC of not taking advantage of the local labor pool in supplying workers to small southern industries. F.R. Betton later reported, however, that union members did not want jobs in the South: they wanted to go to California (27). The end of the month found Mitchell writing to labor leaders in California and Nebraska, trying to find better-paying jobs for his workers (29)