the strike were elected to every major post. UCAPAWA organizers Luke Hinman and Ted Rasmussen, who began an organizing drive at the California Walnut Growers' Association plant, replaced Healey. Demise In the South, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU), which Communist UCAPAWA President Donald Henderson regarded as "a utopian agrarian movement," became affiliated with the union. A power struggle between the groups erupted soon after the affiliation and culminated with a 1939 protest against the eviction of sharecroppers in Missouri, which was not supported by the national organization. As a result, the STFU left the union. Anticommunism was not the sole thread in the fabric of responses to UCAPAWA's organization although there were Communists in UCAPAWA. However, UCAPAWA was not a "communist union." In 1944, UCAPAWA became the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers (FTA). In 1946, the Los Angeles local "collapsed under the weight of Red Scare witchhunts." By 1950, the FTA had only 1,000 workers as members, and it was folded into the Distributive and Processing Workers of America. References Congress of Industrial Organizations Mexican-American history Food processing trade unions Trade unions established in 1937 Trade unions disestablished in 1944 United Food and Commercial Workers