July, 1945, 1945

On July 10, the STFU sent 90 workers to the Frank M. Wilson Co. in Stockton, Calif.; for information on this subject, see the lengthy exchange between Mitchell and the company on the problems which arose (24, 27) and reports from Carrie Dilworth (13), Moses Brown (22), and Roy Clay (24), all at Stockton. For summaries of the STFU's current activities, see Mitchell's memoranda to the NSF (7) and to the STFU Executive Council (13). David Burgess and Cong. Frank Hook both testified before the House Agriculture Committee on behalf of the Delmo tenants; their statements appear (10) as well as a long letter from Burgess to Mitchell on the same topic (31). Of special interest is a draft of a report by Dr. Arthur F. Raper of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics on the effect of increasing mechanization on cotton production in the South 914). Finally, there is a memorandum by Mitchell on the situation at the Campbell Soup Co. where the Food, Tobacco, and Agricultural Workers Union, CIO (formerly UCAPAWA) threatened to strike if STFU seasonal workers were employed (26)