Word: plows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Carroll and Holt Ross, A. F. of L. investigators, charged that: 1) "slavery in its most hideous form" existed in these camps; 2) workers were flogged with plow lines, beaten with pistol butts to maintain discipline; 3) men were compelled to work up to 18 hr. per day, often without overtime pay; 4) wages ranged from 75? to $2 per day; 5) workers were forced to deal at company commissaries, pay exorbitant prices; 6 ) from each man's weekly wage $4.50 for food, $1 for tent rent, 50? for cook hire were arbitrarily deducted by the contractors...
...educational advance under the new conditions is long. It cannot be traversed in one year or in two years. On the contrary, there is an almost endless course of adjustment and evolution to be pursued, and Mr. Lowell, as a pioneer, has a strong and purposeful hand at the plow. --Boston Transcript...
...legislatures if anything is to be done to help cotton this year. . . . Governor Gardner knew that cotton prohibition in the South would play into the hands of the Egypt, Russia et al; he knew the economic loss the South would suffer from no cotton; loss from employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers of loss employment in gins, plow hands, cotton pickers, truck drivers, warehouses, cotton buyers. He knew that the South would miss the money its crop brings in - around $500,000,000 this year at 6? per Ib. - that some institutions, merchants, banks...
...heels of the Farm Board's rejected proposal to plow under every third row of cotton (TIME, Aug. 24), Louisiana's energetic red-headed Governor Huey Pierce Long last week called a conference to consider the cotton situation. To New Orleans flocked hundreds of State officials, factors, planters, millmen and plain farmers. The conference resolved that there should be no cotton planting in 1932, that the Federal Farm Board should buy up 8,000,000 bales of this year's crop to replace next year's. Under the plan Legislatures would prohibit cotton production. Such...
...madness . . . damn foolishness . . . just so much bunk," were typical of the epithets which Southern newspapers, cotton planters and agricultural officials heaped on the Board's proposal. Most economists figured that crop destruction might help the cotton merchant but not the planter himself. One Georgia legislator proposed that "we plow under every third member of the Farm Board." Counter proposals deluged the Board. Congressman Patman of Texas suggested that it destroy its own 1,300,000-bale holdings first as an example to the South. Senator Caraway of Arkansas advised the Board to buy up half of the 1931 crop...