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The article provides information on the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Arkansas. The very existence of the labor union posed a direct and radical challenge to the established order in Arkansas. The salient characteristic of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union was its role as Socialist critic of New Deal agricultural policy. The union's organizing drive illustrated its agitational character. The labor union took its radical cues from H. L. Mitchell, its leader and spokesman. The Socialist Party and the union maintained a filial relationship throughout the union's early years.

The article focuses on the origin and progress of the Texas labor archives. During the Southern Historical Association's meeting in Memphis in November 1966 a group of mostly young historians organized the Association of Southern Labor Historians (SHA). Its purpose was to promote Southern labor history by encouraging the collection of labor records and the delivery of labor papers at meetings concurrent with those of SHA. Inspired by this development, professor George Green of the University of Texas Arlington history department talked with the university librarian, John Hudson, about the absence of primary resource materials for graduate and undergraduate study in history at UTA and the lack of recent research in the South and Southwest on the history of labor. Professor Howard Lackman of the history department joined in the series of conversations. Researchers learned that no university in the Southwest was actively collecting labor records and that the labor community, possessing tons of non-current records, needed and wanted a labor archives.

This article presents the journal of S. C. Hewitt, appointed lecturer of the Fall River Mechanics' Association and labor organizer in Massachusetts in the early 1840s. Students U.S. labor movement know that the most important development of the 1840s was the ten-hour movement, and that the organization which spearheaded this demand was the New England Workingmen's Association which came into existence in the fall of 1844 to give support to the shorter workday crusade. The association was largely the product of the mechanics of Fall River, Massachusetts. Early in 1844 these men organized a Mechanics' Association to further the ten-hour day in their community. The association distributed pledge cards binding the signers not to work for more than ten hours and conducted a number of strikes for the shorter working day. In April 1844, the Fall River Mechanics Association set up a publishing committee, headed by Thomas Almy, to print a four-page weekly paper, "The Mechanic," to advocate the cause of the oppressed mechanic and laborer in all its bearings. The Mechanics' Association secure the services of S. C. Hewitt as a lecturer. Readers of "The Mechanic" were already familiar with Mr. Hewitt.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The Labadie Collection," by Eleanor H. Scanlan in the Fall 1965 issue and an article about Joel Seidman's book "The Policies and Practices of the American Federation of Labor, 1900-1909."

The article presents a list of research in progress in U.S. labor history as of January 1, 1966. Studies that are listed include Interpretative History of Labor in America by Hyman Berman, Ideological and Institutional Influence on Trade Unionism From the Knights of Labor to the Present Day by Maurice Neufeld, The Influence of the Monetary Ideas of Edward Kellog on the Greenback Labor Party in the 1870s by K. A. Taylor and American Labor and Temperance Reform, 1866-1919 by Ronald M. Benson and colleagues.

The article discusses the role of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) of the U.S. in advocating the independence of the Philippines. The 1920s can be described as the critical period of Philippine independence. The first recorded instance of AFL interest in the Philippines during the period in question was in 1923. According to the Reports of the Proceedings of the American Federation of Labor for 1923, the Executive Council authorized a survey of working and living conditions in the Philippines and publication of a committee report of the findings. At the 1924 conference, the Executive Council decided to petition the U.S. Congress to grant the earnest prayer and petitions of the Filipinos to give them the right to exercise in full liberty, freedom and self-government.