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Caldwell's Hog Wallow Sirs: . . . Erskine Caldwell is seizing upon an isolated instance or two of injustice to tenant farmers by Jefferson County landowners to paint the county as a sink of iniquity. As a damyankee of many generations standing, I cannot be accused of rushing to the defense of my native State. But by profession trained to accurate observation and impartial reporting, and speaking from six years' intimate familiarity with Jefferson County, I can say that a more contemptible libel has never been uttered about any community...
Tobacco Road. In its second year, Erskine Caldwell's grotesque masterpiece about Georgia tenant farmers has suddenly become topical (TIME, March...
Infection Centre. To date Georgians have struck no blow against what shocked Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell has called their state of "bootleg slavery." Not so the lean tenant farmers of Arkansas, whose memorable bread-riot at England, Ark., four years ago (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931) made the country sit up and take notice...
Encouraged by Socialist Thomas and Professor William R. Amberson of the University of Tennessee, who interrupted his noteworthy researches into artificial blood transfusions (TIME, July 23), the Poinsett County share croppers last summer formed a protective association, The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Program: no evictions; no forced trading at plantation commissaries; direct payment of reduction benefits; representation on all agricultural control boards; co-operation of white and black share croppers. In spite of further evictions for Union participation, in the face of ostentatiously armed "plantation riders," the Union now numbers...
...elements of a rip-snorting class-conflict were present in the little town of Marked Tree in January when a youngster of 24 named Ward H. Rodgers, on the executive committee of the Union, addressed an outdoor gathering of hungry, disgruntled and dispossessed tenant farmers. Ward Rodgers, a Socialistic Texan with theological degrees from Vanderbilt and Boston Universities, was already in bad odor with the landlord class because he had been calling Negroes "mister." And as an instructor in FERA's adult education service, he had been mixing Karl Marx with the ABC's. He was quoted...