Word: caning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relief projects, but in some areas they have stopped because there isn't even enough drinking water. You might get work once every 15 days." Thanage gave his four bullocks, two buffaloes, two cows and a few goats to the Belapur sugar factory, which feeds them crushed sugar cane as fodder, and came to Bombay. "Everybody here is hungry," he adds. "Any man with self-respect would not I beg, but if it's a question of filling your stomach and there is no work, what...
...Aside from Larry, who has been playing professionally for the better part of the last 10 years, this is the first working, performing band for the other players. Both K.T. Wolff, bass player, and Bobby (Seedy) McPheety, rhythm and lead guitar and vocals, are former members of the Pure Cane, one of those formative, short-lived, lively and little known local bands whose main contribution to posterity has been mountains of coke cans and ashes in the living room and some fine tunes sung and soloed by Bobby in the Carsman Blues Band. Fred Lappin, the band's drummer...
Many of those who harvest the sugar crop in Louisiana live in shacks that were once used by slaves. The walls are so worn that sunlight filters through. With an annual wage of about $2,750, the average sugar-cane worker has five children, and their diet is so poor that by the age of twelve their bodies are like those of people 50 years...
...Department of Agriculture, in annual hearings, checks on the condition of sugar-cane laborers because it is authorized by law to regulate their wages. In 1970 that wage was $1.65 an hour for top workers, and before the 1971 wage was set the wage-price freeze went into effect. When Phase II thawed matters some, the 1971 rates would have raised top workers 10? an hour, but Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz ruled that the increase need not be paid until Jan. 10, 1972. "That is a big joke for Louisiana," says Sister Anne Catherine Bizalion of the Southern Mutual Help...
...reformed and the conditions that gave impetus to these songs are rapidly disappearing. The prisoners don't sing the songs as often as they used to, and only the older inmates remember the days when men would sever their Achilles tendons in order to avoid slave labor in the cane and cotton fields. By recording the stories and songs of the prisoners, Jackson has provided a valuable record of one of the bleaker chapters in American history...