The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-06-05
.4+on fields of Arkansas,

Critteinu'tth the eastern part OF the
state; intend to stop every pI9w
1--WE Ir' hoe in the cotton fields,
I'D even :. {yo can hold out for one
ana. ae the planters VIII nave nave TO TONS glss
in o. l tbo strike call Of the South
reads o sno Farmers Union, sent
> srt by H. L. Mitchell na'l0nal sec
Tetar !ytriko referendum was carried
A So SIN March, and by a vote OF
.. s1,I Ias ~ 3d.? 884 the executive 6 council aI
6ll0 ttr0de rec to call strike Eat
was .3,, Ul when the cotton is coming
. Fllr me !. in danger Of grass and
weeks ~ taking It,"
W. TT;9bir the next ten days or two
WIZ" The cotton chOpping"
. E '.s;fo will be fought by thousands
ss y i,nsm G Of the Southern Ten
9. o.. farmers Union, who will re-
a.. 70 "chop'' cotton.
!'s me- ~ demands Of the Union are
=. Awritten contract based ON
=. ZION q model contract, embOdylng
j, c o,,TaI and adequate settlements
H. s our neople, with furnishes
~, J. legal rates of interest and
H.: " =. in full of any and all
government subsidies, etc., al
Sved tenants and sharecrOpperS
nnder government contracts.
Wage rates Of not less that 81
nor ten hour day, and Is cents
per hour for overtime for day
labor. -
interfere with union meetings,
and no discrimination on account
Of uniOn membership.
While the agricultural workers
Of Arkansas are preparing for thl:
crucial struggle, the states CAPT
tal. Little Rock, is carrying on
highly advertised centennial cele
brating the one hundredth ami
.yersary Of the states admission t.
The United States.
: Pageants will commemorate var
lous historic episodes in Arkan
sass history. For instance, eth
p" Trail Of Tears" will be remember
ed.
The story of the trail Of tear
has to do with one of the heart
breaking stories of the whit
mans treatment of the Indians
Along this road, which is now [
S. Highway No. 70, leading frol
p Memphis through Little Rock an
over to Indian Territory, the Chez
Okee Indians were escorted by tn
army of the United States ovs
one hundred years ago. The goin
was slow and suffering unbeal
able. Hundreds of braves, the
squaws and papooses, died alon
that trail from the ravages {
cholera. From the marshes echot
and reeChOed the death chants al
means of the dying.
. Highway No. 70, or the Trail
Tears, is the road which today Gu
clear across the cotton counties
Arkansas. Along this same ira
thousands Of sharecroppers Ii
and struggle for more decent liv
Gnood. Instead of hundreds
Caerokees who, hundred yea
ago. died of cholera, today tho
sands Of negro and white shal
troopers sicken and die of pella
Ia the dread disease of malnut
Ia0n' Hundreds of families ha
g s!S evlcted. The cotton fields g
nued with the cries of those W
=. are Slugged by riding bosses. I
VA IN leaders today are often co
F Eeued to hide in the swamps. I
55sll Of Tears is not of Arkansa
historic past; it is a part of
utter present.
!. Over one hundred. and fl
5IouSand dollars was voted a f
rays rays ago by the Senate of
S Su5ed States to the Arkan
NM SSts;.enniel Commission on a re
IT1pa introduced by Senator
s !, Robinson, who has fought s
esely every effort of the sha
gsuppers to improve their col
Sons SONS. The President of the Uni
., S,aIes is due to be in Arkan
WI ySue Tune in June. His presenc
Co ~ announced, depends on W
TsIess adjourns.
no 36enlc2lly enough, a part of
5 'ney which was obtained bv +
Ia ss5, the Democratic Maio o
os sadeT in the Senate. will be
IN uea on tricky little pan
as s CUT out in the shape of
T oes3oex tolling Arkansas, q
manu- uuef : State. It's virtues