Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Cincinnati, earnest Socialist Norman Thomas broadcast: "The most wretched conditions on any large scale anywhere to be found in exploited America, exist in [the] cotton country. . . . These share croppers and casual day laborers of the cotton fields are the Forgotten Men of the New Deal. AAA has 'practically washed its hands of them and their problems...
...past four years has brought the South's farm population up to 54% of the nation's total farm population. Yet last year the South received but 33% of the national income from field crops and livestock. Of this, all but a small fraction came from cotton, the "Poverty Crop...
...maintain at least a medium individual farm income level was the purpose of the Cotton Acreage Reduction Program, launched in 1933 and continued last year. The landowner pledged himself "insofar as possible, [to] maintain on this farm the number of tenants and other employes," which he had maintained in the past. He was also supposed to pass along pro rata the share croppers' share of the reduction benefit payments...
...number of Southern landlords, correctly informed by their lawyers that the cotton reduction contract has no legal teeth and does not bind them to maintain the normal number of tenants or to pass their benefit shares along impartially, found means of withholding the reduction fee, ousting tenants from the land. AAA now admits that whereas the pre-New Deal cotton income went 40% to landlords, 60% to tenants, the reverse ratio may now hold true. From a class and country where letter-writing comes hard, some 7,000 share croppers had by last week scrawled out despairing protests to AAAdministrator...
Sherman P. Cotton, John L. Dampeer, Peter P. Hale, Aaron J. Himelhoch, Courtney C. Smith, Robert Sullivan, and Richard O. Ulin...