The Farm-Labor Union News (Texarkana, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 29, 1925 Page: 4 of 4
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We wis lite brand the above state-
ment as FALSE whether told by the
James Duncan, vjee-president of the
American Federation of Labor, advo-
cated a law requiving that it would be
farm and city, to develop the beet that
fa bi him?»
P. S. I started the foregoing with
the weed “puerile* which the diction-
. ary defines as “boyish,” “tifling."
white the
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children a fair start in life with the
more fortunate parents.
Siom of
ed will be the greatest power a
truly be said for the farmer,
er of producing everything the
But alas, we still have a few “stiek-in-the-
A.F.efL. WIL CONTINUE
FIGHr ox ( MILD LABUR LAW
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ARE GIVEN
SMALLER PAY
Hi fares the land, to hastening ills a prey.
Where wealth accumulates, ami men decay;
Prinees and Ion is may fleurish, or may fade.
A breath can make them as a breath has made.
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride.
When once destroyed, can never be supplie
—Oliver Goldsmith.
EXCHAN(E SEATS UP
(‘OTFON REG ENTLY DROPPED
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seretaries respectively were “instruet
ed by MaM.aal President Fitzwater
and the National Executive Commit -
toe to prepare a new constitution
NAeNAL OFFICIALS or
THE FARM-LABOR UNION
Mmlfcat—W. W. Fitzwater, R-5, Bonham,
awakened to the great need of strict co-operution
with his brothers in toil. May Ged have merey
r. L. u. wocAlS DONATING
COrroN SEED FOR NEEDY
Organized labor has long since learne
lesson that as an organization, wonders can
producers to the total population k
l today less than 70 par eat
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er put him in a place ....
To attain hh proper pmitim in tin world tae
farmernowneeds every legitimate assistanee
available, this asgistance he is receiving from
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in a recent address to a crowd in an eastern
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Ml achools are
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National Official ergan of The Farm-
La tor Union of America
(PUBLISHED WEEKLY)
Publisled by the national executive com-
mittee of the Farm-Labor Union of America,
at 1326 Texas, Avenue, Texarkana, Texas.
Entered as second-class matter July 26, 1921
at the portoffice cf Texarkana, Tex.-Ark. un-
der Aet of March 3, 1873.-
' recersary for «ven of the
al and given Mb
be able to raise hia children
the world as they grew up,
brother and sisbens of the cit:Thisls
Atlantic City, N. J.,Oct. 16.— Ex -
plotters of our nation’s children and
paid propa ganis.s for ehjle inks r
day of the American Federation of
habor convention. President, Green in
an address declared:
"So far as I am able to influence
this great labor movement the fight
will go on as long as we live thru
the rueeaeding generations until the
children of the nations are saved."
The largest attendance yet in sesr
sien at the convention listened to Pres
idem Green’s and those of the other
understood that
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F. L U. of A. n
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mk City, the medi, salary paid
cirmentary teachers vp increased
from $1,776 in 1988 to $1,844 in 1925;
in cities of 30,000 to 10,000, from
$1/66 to $1,528; in cities of MW to
80,000 from $1,289 to $1,24; and in
cities of 5000 to 10/900 from |1204
ideration.
past few yeuvs salaries pan’ elemcr-
tary teachers in cities have been in-
cteased, while salavies paid rural
teachers have been lowerel. hi cities
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Typographical Union said Mat there
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The Farm-Labor Union, like other or-
ganizations in its march of progress I
finds it necessary from time to time to
change M's plans of doing business in
order to keep Abreast with the evolu-
tin of time, and meet demands of the
business werld with which we are daily
coming in contact.
There are, judging from themany tet-
ters received at the Union News office
many of our members are in favor
\ of a efamgE in oar marketing plans,
whereby all produets,will be handled
through one channel: It is not left for
us to pass on the merits or demerits
of this question, but suffice it to say,
the ateartert efficient route possible be-
tween ttee grower of farm products and
tee consumer, is the route for the F. L.
i U. of A. to travel.
We feel sure the delegates to our next
National Convention will c ome prepared
. to settle this question in such a man-
mt that our rood to “cost plus" will
be waMtcrnHy shortened.
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W. & KYLE, Manager
■UE WMJLAAMH, Assistant Manager.
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
Those Who Asst Us
“Farmer Jones pays the bill” seems to
be the slogan of members of "our" New
York exchange. seats on the exchange
recently took a skyward turn, cotton
simultaneously took an earthward drop,
the following news item shows here
seats are becoming more valuable:
“A membership in the New York Ex-
change has recently been sold for $130,
000 and arrangements have been made
subjett to the approval of the board of
governors, for the sale of another seat
at $135 000. The last previous sale
was for $126,000, the increasing price
for seats is due to the enormous ac-
tivity of the market.”
, With the recent drop of approximate-
ly one and one-fourth cents per pound
in cotton, it should be much easier for
the average gambler to pay the extra
five or ten thousand dollars for ex-
change seats. nevertheless "Farmer
Jones pays the bill.”
ly in the season, indicate a short ' .
rather than a large crop, as cotton op-
ear prematurely during long drouths,
falling short of expectations." ,
Meantime, Commissioner Terrell’a
estimnte « f he 1925 , rop is giv .. we
million bales shy of the Federal Gov-
. ermment r ■ umate, w "h the raag" Ato
eertainty o kt the latter gent; r,a
vereni Biste ry by hedging down to te
estimate of our Texas Commissimer.
• But that wil not bring back to th
farmers of the South the millions they
have been beaten out of by the macni-
nations of the gamblers and their al-
city by Congressman J. D. Beck of Wisconsin, the
Congressman makes mention in regard to assis-
tance the farmer is receiving from organized la-
bez, thia assistance we consider one of our great*
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AusSin, Texas, Aet. 21.— Lowering
salaries of teachers of rural schools
has practically made the rural school
a stepping stone of young and inex-
perieneed teachers, theveby depriving
chidren of rural corunities a taiv
chance in the matter of education, ac-
cording to J. L. Tennant, research
specialist in the University of Texas
division of extension. In diseussing
■8» ill I T. W. Wilson, Dorsey, Miss.
Semvetary-Trensurer—-W. J Kyle, Texarkana
Nezas, Baa 193.—Phone 1522.
wationai Executive Committee. R. A. Callowty
Dike, Tex.; 3. W. Whittle, R-2, Ringling,
•Un.; A. M. Hilliard, Secretary, R-2, Can-
ton, Tex.; N. S. Craword, Kerens, Tex.; J
B. Teague Arkadelphia, R-3, Ark.
) STATE-HEADQVARTERS:
Tum—w. i. Kyle, (Acting) See.-Treas.
Tezarkana, Texas.
hdhanaas—R. B. Jennings, Sec.-Treas, Nash-
ON WITH THE
N DAM E! BIT BARK!
To th.-* Union News:
Some of his friends in Texas, aware
of his fitness for the position, men-
tioned Hon. Fred W. Davis, three
times State Commissioner of Agricul-
ture, as President of the Texas A.
& V. Coilege. The mention was as
far as trey got. In a letter to the
writer, received prior to the apvoint-
ment o fa new Presicient, Mr. Davis
said:
"While I feel sure that commercial,
rather than agricultural and mechani-
ezl interests will content the selection
of the next A.&M. President, I ap-
preciate the mention of me for the po- .
sition, by some of my friends. How
wej peed to throw off the straight
Jacket and put some common senne
and old-time virlue into our educe -
tional and other public intistutions. “
“But I fear the hold is too strong
to ever be thrown off; and at the
tart, we shall become tee destroyers
of our own civilization. We are too
prone to measure cur progress by the
rapidity of our gait, rather than by
our candle- power at both ends, gloat-
ing like drunkards in its brilliance, ob-
viove of the darkness that Mes he-
yond." . !
If th* foregoing by our ex-Agrievi-
tura Commissioner sonds a bit ne-
simsrie, it may be well to state that
wen the new A. A M. president was
on the job, he was tendered a ban-
emnkA Wu Bals f* Gm ame nR Ahhe
EWEE UY CWITI INIE EI# IUI UVNIE WU UE
large cities of Texas; at which he
stated that the Texas A. A M. College
nor hAnNwA Ana at 4 L* anantac4 w*l:.
11 CW? VUIE VIAE OI -II5 g 1 ITf
tary schoels in the country, and spnite
very approvingly of the progress be-
ing nadie by athletics at the Texas
A. A M. If he said a word about ag-
ricultural progress at the A. A M., it
vas not mentioned hy the daily paper
i take.—CLARIDGE.
that
then,andonly then willhebe able to give his
ehldrenof
The District of Columbia is losim
its farms and soon bungalows and golf
courses will cover the entre ten miles
. squar of area. A recent survey
shows there are now 139 farms in the
District compared with 234 in 1920.
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AMERICAN COTTON TO RUSSIA.
Seventeen steamers with American
and Egyptian cotton have recently ar-
rived in the port of Murmansk, total-
ing an importation of 1,300,000 poods
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pensions, unemployment, insuranee amd ethher
will not be asking anyone to assume gudrd
eeipt of information to the effect that
one Mr. Powers of Nashville, Ark. her
It will be remembere several weeks
ago we published a letter frem Brother
& W. Whitetine of Post Oak locai No.
13TB, Lamar county. Texas, saying his
local and probably others in Lamar coun
ty would donate cotton seed to be dis -
tributed among needy farmers of the
drouth stricken parts of the state. An -
ether tetter just received from Brother
Whitstine shows the good Union broth-
ers in Lamar county mean business:*
«At the last meeting of our local, after ,
business was over we had about eleven hun-
dred acj fifty pounds of seed signed up, expect
to gethore from absent members. Mays pra-
rie local will give quite a lot. One man of
Brik local gives ten bushels with more to fol-
tow. Davis local will do her part. Mr. A. E.
Gates puts up 9 bushels and will hit his local
at Garretts Bluff for a lot more, so you see
we mean business.”
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This was purely a voluntary move
started by Post Oaklocal No. 1379 F. L
U. of A. and has already spread over
y.
This is another example, of the true
regard for your brother in distress that
goes hand in hand with the real union
spirit. May the good work continue.
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ployment.
fhetured
Puerile, is a mos: fit'ing term by
which to characterize many of the Cot
top Exehange excuses for bearing th?
cotton market. One of the most sil-
ly cf those subterfuges for purpose
aforesair, fa to give increased early .
ginning of seasons like the present
as indication of a large crop. '
Farmers know that extreme drouth
forces premature onenie with conse-
quent sooner ginning; likewise, the'
such drouch-forced opning is invari-
able preeurser of short crop. If the
U. 8. Government estimaters and
their special friends, the Cotton Ex -
change gamblers, are ignorant of thin ’
fact, they need education. If they
are wise to it, they ere net honest.
While ready to bet an what he
would say, I wrote our dirt-farmer
. Commissioner of Agricultur for
Texas on the subject, who anawewd
back as follows: “You are correct
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