The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-11-08
Farmers Consider Plan to Relieve the
Cotton Market Situation
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN
Committees From State Farmers's
Onion Will Consider Cotton Hold
ing Facilities To Publish Names Of
Cotton for higher Price.
Those Who Give Pledge to Hold

Farmers Union Day" was opened
Thursday morning by a meeting OF
the executive committee of the, State
union in the Office Of the State secre-
tary, Mr.. J. Whitner Reid, in the
Hook building, at O'Clock. A meet
ing of the warehouse committee will
be held Thursday evening in the Of
Ace of the secretary at 7 o'clock, and
the day will be climaxed by the gen
eral open meeting Of the union
Thursday evening at s O'Clock in the
Richland county court house, on
Washington street.
All the members Of the committee
were present at the meeting Thurs
day morning, which opened about 9
O'Clock. President E. W. Dabbs of
Sumter is a member ex ofhcio, as also
is Mr.. Reid, the secretary. The 9TH
er members are Messrs. H. T. Morri:
son McClellanville, Douglass McIn-
tyre of Marion and A. D. Hudson OF
1t was stated at.the con-
clusion of the meeting that only rou-
tine matters had been transacted, and
that nothing Of especial interest to
the general public had taken place.
A meeting of the warehouse COM
mittee was to have been held Thurs
I'll the evening This coEC1itte is
composed Of seven members, from
the different congressional districts OF
the State and has a supervision over
the Farmers Union Warehouse Com
pany Of South Carolina, recently COM
by the secretary of state
with a present cacital Of 100000.
Stock subscriptions are being solici:-
ed for this scheme for cotton storage,
from memb bers of the union through
out the State, the first installment of
which, 80 per cent, is due on Decem-
Der /.
The committee will look into the
generally to find what pro-
gress has been made, and what fur
ther steps are to be taken, etc. The
members are, in the order of their
districts: Messrs. H. T. Morrison, Nc
Clellanville, chairman; Alfred AID
rich, Barnwell; B. Harris, Pendleton;
B. F. Keller, spartanburg; J. B. o.
Neal Holloway, Newberry; w. H. Cur
ry, RHEIMS, and W. A. sluckey, Bish-
opville.
The meeting Thursday night was
well attended and there were a num-
Der of interesting plans proposed to
help the farmers in their fight to Sc
cure fair price for cotton. DR.. Wade
of Dillon read his plan
for relieving the situation. The plan
was Immediately adopted, but after
disc ssion a number Of features OF
the plan elsewhere in this paper. One
plan submitted to the conference
was to organize the landlords and
thereby keep the price Of cotton up.
Mr.. Clinkscales proposed that
pledges be secured firm the cotton
growers in the various counties of
the State to hold their cotton and
that the acreage be reduced. He pro-
posed to have a report of the names
of those who promised to hold cotton
made daily in the papers of the State.
He was of the opinion that If the
farmers will stick together the stu
alton will be much better within ten
days. Mr.. Clinkscales was very en-
thusiastic and urged more confidence
am ng the planters.
In submitting his plan DR.. Stack
house said he had seen the sugges-
ton that each farmer be asked to
sign an affidavit that if IS per cent.
of the farmers agreed to reduce %
per cent. that his pledge would be-
come binding This would put pre-
MUM on lying and surely none of US
would like to see such a strain put
on our farmers next year. The con-
tract plan is the only solution I can
see. Of course the contracts could be
drawn so they would not be binding
unless a given per cent. of farmers
signed up
"But some one croaks that your
plan is as weak as the plan Of the
mice when they agreed to bell the
cat.
"I will say the American Fedora
ton of Labor is a gigantic organlza-
ton; but who questions they have
great power. They contend for fe"
cents to be added to days work
Southernmen producing cotton snre'
ly have as good fighting qualities as
organized labor in the North. While
they are fighting for g few thousand
dollars in wages, we cotton farmers
are fighting for the greater money
crize on earth losing this year about
$500, 100000 by our slothful neglect
to organize.
"The brickmasons Of Nav York
city meet and organize and agree
that a certain price per day shall be
charged to lay brick. Some one thai
does not want to join the union tries
to cut the price. They call him 9
tscab,' and make it so uncomfortable
that it is best to charge union prices
or move on to some other country.
eve will have some stabs amons
our farmers, but they will be an eX
ception, and soon public sentiment
will become so strong that If the!
don't Join the procession they will be
as cordially hated as was a desertel
in the War Between the States DR.
Stackhouse's plan is published II
this issue if this paper. Read II.
Twenty.Four Drowned.
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