The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-11-15
TALK II OVER
farmers Consider Plan 10 Relieve he
Ca!ton Ha,ket si'us'isn
MUCH INTEREST SHOWN

MUCH INTEREST MONN
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 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 9 o'clock. a meet
ling Of the warehouse committee VIII
be held Thursday evening in the Of
fee of the secretary at o'clock, and
the day will be climaxed by the gen
eral open meeting of the union
Thursday evening at 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 oficio, as also
is Mr. Reid, the secretary. The 9TH.
er members are Messrs. H. T. MorrS-
son McClellanville, Douglass Mcln-
tyre of Marion and A. D. Hudson Of
Newberry. 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 conn
mittee was to have been held Thurs
til the evening. This committe 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 the secretary Of state
with 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-
ber /.
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. r.. T. Morrison, Nc
Clellanville, chairman; Alfred AID
rich, Barnwell; B. Harris, Pendleton;
3. F. Keller, Spartanburg; ]. 3. o.
Neal Holloway, Newberry; w. H. Cur
~, RHEIMS, and W. a. Stuckey, Bish-
opville.
The meeting Thursday night was
well attended and there were num-
Der Of interesting plans proposed to
help the farmers in their fight to Sc
cure fair price for cotton. DR.. Wade
Stackhouse of Dillon read his plan
for relieving the situation. The plan
was Immediately adopted, but after
disc ssion a number Of features of
.he 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-
don't Join the procession they will be
as cordially hated as was a deserter
in the War Between the States" DE-.
Stackhouse's plan is published in
this issue if this paper. Read it.
see. Of course the contracts could be
drawn so they would not be binding
unless given per cent. of farmers
signed up
33But some one croaks that your
plan is as weak as the plan Of the
mice when they agreed to bell the
cat.
Il will say the American Fedora
tion of Labor is gigantic organiza-
ton; but who questions they have
great power. They contend for a. few,
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 a few thousand
dollars in wages, we cotton farmers
are fighting for the greater money
prize on earth losing this year about
s3O0,OOO,O00 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 that
does not want to join the union tries
to cut the price. They call him
'scab, and make it so uncomfortable
that it is best to charge union prices
or move on to some other country.
I'VE will have some sta5s among
our farmers, but they will be an ex-
ception, and soon public sentiment
will become so strong that if they
posed to have 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
lays. Mr.. Clinkscales was very el>
;husiastic and urged more confidence y