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...factor in the Fascist cause because it owns approximately one fourth of all the land in Spain. It is because of this condition that we find Spanish peasantry pillaging churches in much the same manner that French revolutionaries burned the homes of the wealthy nobility. The same situation of tenant-farming that we have in the South, exists in Spain under far more extreme circumstances...
...anything Manila's communications with the rest of Luzon were cut. For two days there was fighting. Sixty people were killed before a radical group, the Sakdalistas, whose leader Benigno Ramos directed the uprising from his exile in Tokyo, was finally suppressed. Underfed workers and poverty-stricken tenant farmers continued to listen eagerly to Sakdalista and Communist agitators. Recently, however, the signs of discontent seemed to have ebbed...
...ever comes, it will behoove us to do some serious thinking about the human consequences of these machines. I heard a man familiar with the South say recently that the first effects of the development of an efficient cotton picker might be the displacement of over half a million tenant families...
...endorsement of the company union, but at least it does not now hold that a union organizer is 'outside interference'. . . . The principle he has now stated would seem to recognize the right of the Committee on Industrial Organization to carry on the steel campaign and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to organize the sharecroppers and field-workers in Arkansas without being subject to the tyranny of local sheriffs...
...family have been landowners here in Arkansas for generations, and they cope with the present tenant system of farming the best they can: giving the tenants and sharecroppers weekly orders at community grocery stores during the winter months when gardens are impos- sible, paying doctor bills for the sick, burying the dead, as well as bailing [offenders] out of ail when necessary. These are a few items hat the social agitators prefer to leave unmentioned in their "demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming...