The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-11-08
TALK II OVER
Farmers Consider Plan to Relieve The
Cotton Market Situa!isn
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN

Committees From State Farmers's
Union VIII 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.. ]. Whitner Reid, in the
Hook building, at O'Clock. A meet
ing of the warehouse committee will
be held Thursday evening In the or
ace of the secretary at I o'clock, and
the day will be climaxed by the gen
oral 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 member ez ofhcio, as also
is Mr.. Reid, the secretary. The oth-
er members are Messrs. H. T. Morrl-
son McClellanville, Douglass Mc1n-
tyre of Marion and A. D. Hudson OF
Newberry. 1t was stated at.the COL
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
nittee was to have been held Thurs
Il! the evening. This conE1!ste is
composed of seven members, from
the different congressional districts OF
the State and has supervision over
the Farmers Union Warehouse Com
pany Of South Carolina, recently COM
missioned by tie secretary of state
; with a present cacital Of 100000.
Stock subscriptions are being solicit
ed for this scheme for cotton storage,
| from members 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
:. situation 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.
4 Neal Holloway, Newberry; w. H. Cur
! ry, RHEIMS, and W. A. stNckey, Bish
S opville.
The meeting Thursday night wa:
. well attended and there were mum
!, Der of interesting plans proposed tt
r help the farmers in their fight to Sc
0 cure a fair price for cotton. DR.. Wade
t Stackhouse of Dillon read his plaI
e for relieving the situation. The pla1
e was Immediately adopted, but afte
r disc ssion a number of features o
q the plan elsewhere in this paper. On
g plan submitted to the conferenc
: was to organize the landlords am
: thereby keep the price Of cotton up
Mr.. Clinkscales proposed tina
G "a Pntfn1
o growers in the various counties o
e the State to hold their cotton an
= that the acreage be reduced. He pro
6 posed to have a report OF the name
It of those who promised to hold cotto
y made daily in the papers of the State
# He was of the opinion that II tn
$ farmers will stick together the stu
y alton will be much better within te
= days. Mr.. Clinkscales was very en-
d thusiastic and urged more confdenc
d am ng the planters.
.e In submitting his plan Dr.. Stacs
% house said he had seen the sugge:
n ton that each farmer be asked
# sign an affidavit that if IS per cen
is of the farmers agreed to reduce z
lie per cent. that his pledge would d
le come binding. This would put pr
MUM On lying and surely none Of I
Of would like to see such a strain pl
Mt on our farmers next year. The COZ
in tract plan is the only solution ca
le see. OF course the contracts could
is drawn so they would not be bindln
lg unless a given per cent. of farme'
ne signed up
ne "But some one croaks that yo1
he plan is as weak as the plan OF II
to mice when they agreed to bell II
Ill cat.
es 81 will say the American FEEDER
is ton of Labor is gigantic organlz
ch ton; but who questions they ha'
.st great power. They contend for te
to cents to be added to days "or
n Southernmen producing cotton snr
all " have as good fighting qualities
th organized labor in the North. Whl
90 they are fighting for few thousal
tn dollars in wages, we cotton farme
are fighting for the greater mon
,er orize on earth losing this year abo
ay $500 100000 by our slothful negle
is to organize.
ls "The brickmasons of Nav Yo
Ld-,city meet and organize and agr
ms that a certain price per day shall
I'M charged to lay brick. Some one tn
me does not want to join the union III
or to cut the price. They call him
it 'scab,' and make It so uncomforfat
,rd that it is best to charge union prlc
ills or move on to some other country.
H. eve will have some staos amo
is our farmers, but they will be an
ception, and soon public seRt:me
rs. will become so strong that If tn
1p- don't join the procession they Will
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