Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-02-13

The discovery. sccatd.nr II Labor.
q Washington. u. e newspaper. that
southern Gotten min owners have
been hiding behind the Farmers
States Rights League" Is eNperted
ia Washington to result IN an lnssstl.
gatiou Of The alleged fraud By Con
ErcSs.
The rejection Of the Child Labor
Amendment hy Kansas. North and
Septh Dakota. was accompanied bY
the exposure that Southern cotton
mill owners are hiding hfhind the
Farmers States Rightly League g
Labor announced thai under this name
they have been aoodlng the wheat
states With advertising and propas
ganda Ia onier than children IN the
textile mills might b. allowed 70
work without any protection kealls
mr that the farmers IN tho West have
given The working children ln their
o@n States good LAVE, and that they
would resent the plea af the cotton
interests 10 help them vet their labor
Young aud cheap. the textile mill own
efs. apparently for 10 other purpose
than 10 mlNnform the farmers about
the Amendment started an alleged
fake farmers organization imme
diately aitef Cen"res8 submitted II.
This organization has been inslrumcns
tai in the Middle Meet in arousinK
sentiment apains, the Amendment,
labor says
The Farmers States Rights League.
Is not farmers organization, lls
president A the cashier of cotton
mill hank. It's vice president Is an
emploSe af cotton mill store, Its
chiei agent man who writes the
ads for agricultural papcrsis listed
In the Charlotte tN.cl city directory
as an omploye of the Clark Publish.
inv Company,
The Clark Publishing Company h
owned bs David Clark, Editor of the
Southern Textile Bulletin, argan af
the cotton mill owners of the South.
Mr., Clark, Tor many years, has been
part Of the cotton mill lobby, which
has operated in Washington aud else.
whore in opposition to child labor
legislation.
All these cotton mill farmers WIN
are officers Of the league admitted
that the league does not attempt to
collect dues from Is members. They
were unable 10 produce any member.
ship roll aud they refused 10 tell
where they got the money TO pay for
their advertisements.
Apparently the only farmers con
nected with the league were two men
who had consented To permit heir
names to be used in connection with
he Incorporation Of the organization
These farmers ARE apparently honest
stsaighi lafaaas s.saanA. They al.
mitted that they knew nothing about
the league. They had permitted the
use of their names, they said, be.
cause they had been told that II wa
proposed To pass a law which wolld
prevent their children from even do.
ing the chores on the farm. They
were assured that they would not be
expected 10 make any financial con.
ttibulion.
Mill Bank Cashier IL League President
The records of the Secretary Of
State of North Carolina show that this
League was incorporated by the
cashier of cotton mill bank Ben T.,
Wade Of Troy, N, C., by stofekeeper
at the Rhyme Anderson cotton mill,
N. II. Williams Of Candor, N, G., and
By two farmers who did mol know
that the League vas being used 10
send large quantities of paid advef.
tisiuR through the agricultural parts
Of the country, G. II. Greene Of Yad-
kin College, N, C., and l., II. Hilton
Of Thomasvile, N. c, The League
was Incorporated July 2, 1924.
The headquarters Of the Farmers