DEMAND FOR U. S. COTTON DROPPING, MITCHELL ASSERTS
Demand for U. S. Cotton Dropping, Mitchell Asserts Will Throw Thousands Out. of Work Unless Workers Are Organized. He Declares PHILADELPHIA.—The junking of cotton spindles must continue for four...
...He classed as "unsuccessful" and "perhaps "dangerous" the federal farm board's attempt to stabilize prices by buying crop surpluses...
...You may check things a little, but such immensely rich interests have grown up in the country with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer that someday the whole thing will plunge over a precipice and there will be a real change.—A...
...George S. Mitchell of Columbia university in an address at Bryn Mftwr college before a conference on the A F. of L. Southern organization drive...
...The federal authorities will have to provide a well planned system of public works to care for those who will be thrown out of employment when the cotton plantations are turned to other uses...
...The world demand for American cotton Is diminishing...
...Thomas F. McMahon...
...Edward F. McGrady...
...But you can never stop this advance of wealth until there Is trouble—serious trouble...
...He Declares PHILADELPHIA.—The junking of cotton spindles must continue for four or five years if the industry's equipment is brought down to the point at which output will equal demand, said Prof...
...legislative representative A. F. of L., insisted that the first need in the South is not curtailment of production but an increase in the purchasing power of Southern workers and an abandonment of pauper wage standards...
...declared the speaker...
...lie said...
...That people are awakening to the appalling fact that the government is becoming a tool of wealth and monopoly is apparent...
...Mitchell said government action is less active than co-operation between the various factors in an industry...
...L. Woodward...
...I took La Follette's Magazine nearly all the time it was published and am strictly in sympathy with The Progressive...
...An increase in wages in the South will have a greater influence upon national prosperity than anything else," he said...
...president United Textile Workers, said labor's activity In the South the past six months 1ms demonstrated that this organizing movement is not sporadic "The union," he said, "agrees on the need for a curtailment of production, but the best way to achieve this is through conference with employes...
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...Prof...
...SERIOUS TROUBLE COMING...
...It may be dangerous because the board will not be in a position to hold the surplus, but finally will have to dump it, perhaps with disastrous results...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
