May, 1945, 1945

Much of the day-to-day correspondence during May concerns the recruitment of 300 black college students for summer jobs at the Deerfield Packing Co. in New Jersey; see especially a press release on the project (30) and a "Report on Student Workers", which provides a breakdown on the number of students sent by individual colleges (n.d.). Hopes for saving the Delmo Homes were centered on an "Independent Tenants' Committee" of prominent St. Louis citizens which planned to buy the homes and resell them to the tenants over an extended period of time; information on this committee can be found in a flood of correspondence on Delmo which appears during the last three days of the month and in a letter from FSA Administrator Frank Hancock to Rev. L.S. Thornton of St. Louis (18). STFU Vice-President J.E. Clayton represented the union at the United Nations Peace Conference in San Francisco and sent home reports on his work (1,3,5,12,27,28).