October, 1945, 1945

On October 10, STFU filed a petition for injunction in Federal District Court to restrain the Arkansas USDA Wage Board from setting a wage ceiling of $2.05 per hundred for cotton picking; a copy of the petition and anSTFU press release about it appear at that date. Further information on the wage ceiling fight can be found in the correspondence K.T. Sutton and in a letter from F.R. Betton, who claimed that white tenants at Cotton Plant were so infuriated at the ceiling that they planned to form anSTFU local (31). Letters and reports concerning the campaign to purchase the Delmo Labor Homes from the FSA appear throughout the month, but become especially heavy during the last few days. The union held a series of pre-convention meetings in both Arkansas and Missouri during October; the papers include the minutes of one such meeting held at Dumas, Ark. (13). Finally, reports of trouble arrived from the Frank M. Wilson Co. in Stockton, Calif., where some STFU members had joined FTAW-CIO; see the exchange between Moses Brown and Mitchell on this subject (1,11)