 Subsidies which were provided by the New Deals' 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act benefited only the landowners and the SCU sued the Federal government for direct payment to sharecroppers.The act was declared unconstitutional in 1936 and the case was subsequently dropped.By 1935, membership had reached 5,000 and by 1936, SCU's membership had increased to approximately 10,000 but in October of that year, the Communist Party, desirous of promoting a more popular-frontist bloc with Democrats in the South, withdrew its support of SCU; the SCU was dissolved and it merged first into the Farmers' Union of Alabama, and then into the Alabama Agricultural Workers' Union.