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autonomous body. All sharecroppers and tenant farmers were transferred into the ranks of the National Farmers Union, and the SCU’s agricultural wage laborers were told to join the Agricultural Worker’s Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. The latter soon transferred into the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of American in 1937. Failing to solve the problems created by the New Deal and the mechanization of agriculture in the cotton South, the Party’s decision to divide the organization "by tenure" in 1937 marked the end of the SCU. Nevertheless, a few SCU locals in Alabama and Louisiana chose not to affiliate with any other organization and maintained an autonomous existence well into World War II. FURTHER READING

Beecher, John. "The Share Croppers’ Union in Alabama." Social Forces 13 (October 1934). Dyson, Lowell K. Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982. Kelley, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Rosengarten, Theodore. All God’s Dangers. The Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Vintage Books, 1984. From Encyclopedia of the American Left. Copyright ? 1990 by Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas.