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...dusty bayou country of southern Louisiana last week, the sugar cane stood 10 ft. high. It was time for harvest, but on the huge sugar plantations many of the harvesters failed to report for work. Each morning before sunup, some 2,000 (an estimated 10% of the labor force) gathered in Masonic lodges and Burial Society halls from the outskirts of New Orleans to the Atchafalaya River to sing hymns, pray, sip coffee and idle away the day. After generations of precarious existence on the big plantations, the cane workers were out on an organized strike. Their wages (minimums...
...owners replied that recognition would be followed inevitably by ruinous wage demands. As it is, the Department of Agriculture subsidy makes the difference between profit and loss for many a planter. This week the growers' Sugar Cane League, in newspaper advertisements, vowed that "this is a struggle which the farmers will not and cannot lose," threatened "mass discharges and evictions" if the strike did not end. Some planters have already imported strikebreakers from Mississippi...
...homework)? . . . What if you went without it?' . . . 'Well, the Head . . . would send you down to his study. He wouldn't talk or beg you to do your work. He would just give you six of the best . . . That's six wallops with his birch cane. And boy, do they hurt...
Reuter's long-memoried Socialists elected him mayor. His slouching figure, encased in flapping, light raincoat and surmounted by a cheeky black beret, soon became a familiar sight in West Berlin. Poking in the ruins with his thick, brown cane, strolling through the Tiergarten, where he would sometimes help the Haus-frauen gather sticks for their fires, Ernst Reuter became a man whom the people loved. They called him Herr Berlin...
Penny's Ante. The names of some of the owners of the Yonkers Raceway, meanwhile, were made public. Head of the Yonkers Trotting Association and owner of all voting stock is William H. Cane, 79, sportsman who built Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City (scene of the Dempsey-Carpentier "Battle of the Century") and promoted the Hambletonian at his Goshen, N.Y. track as the nation's top annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman...