Word: picker
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...your March 23 issue, there appeared an article headed ''Program for Picker" which will undoubtedly create the impression among your readers that the cotton-producing South faces a chaotic labor problem due to the inventive genius of the Rust Brothers of Memphis, Term., who have invented a mechanical cotton picker...
...Washington lately. New Deal economists have scratched their heads over the Rust picker, pondered the plight of the great mass of black humanity in the South which makes a living picking cotton. They were encouraged to hear that, far from being rapacious moneygetters, the Brothers Rust, professed Socialists, were willing to forego profits rather than deliver a body blow to Southern labor. Holding 51% of the stock in their manufacturing company at Memphis, the Rusts offered marketing control of the picker to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. The Union had too slim a purse to accept. The Brothers left...
Last week John & Mack Rust appealed for Federal and state aid in working out a program for painlessly absorbing the picker into the South's economy. An idea of their own is not to sell the harvesters but to lease them to planters who promise to maintain minimum wage and maximum work-hour scales, abolish child labor and accept collective bargaining. If the promises are not kept the Rusts would snatch back the planter's picker...
...went to France when Pershing cabled Secretary Baker to send him "the ablest railroad man in the U. S.," was commissioned Brigadier General (admiring soldiers called him "General Attaboy"), set up a rail transport system that won him decorations from many an Allied government. An able handler and picker of men, he shrewdly chose to cooperate with or absorb air and bus lines instead of fighting them, hired the late Ivy Ledbetter Lee to humanize his big railroad in the public...
...Alabama cotton picker, with a white maternal great-grandfather and a white paternal great-great-grandfather, Joseph Louis Barrow went to Detroit with his widowed mother when he was five, attended school until he was 14, left to learn to be a cabinet maker. In 1933, when he was 19, he entered the National A. A. U. championships. In 1934 he won the light heavyweight championship in Chicago's Golden Gloves tournament and the National A. A. U. light heavyweight title. Detroit's shrewd Negro Lawyer John Roxborough, with a small fortune made by familiarizing Detroit Negroes with...