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This chapter explores the STFU’s rise, emerging out of mass evictions of sharecroppers and tenant farmers during the New Deal. The union faltered in the face of landlord hostility and a brief merger with the CIO’s United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA). Union leaders hoped wartime mobilization could improve members’ prospects by offering federal agencies assistance in moving underemployed Southerners wherever growers demanded Mexican braceros. Employers thwarted the attempt and immobilized southern farmworkers for the war’s duration, paving the way for braceros. STFU leaders realized grower control over farm labor policy represented an existential threat. |
