The Farm-Labor Union News (Texarkana, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1926 Page: 1 of 4
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TEXARKANA, TEXAS (1526 TEXAS AVENUE) THURSDAY, FEB. 25, 1926.
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Alto, Texas, Feb. 11.
National Secretary,
Our county convention met at
13th. This was the best meet-
le
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ALL INFORMEN)
Prairie Grove local No- 947,
tituti
ALVIN MILLER,
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in
the Union News, please send it
over
Articles 16-17-18, ef the
The Grant county division of
izati
ing
Arkansas is cordially invited to
inti
spond to the request in this let-
Delight,
namE all
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W. Lash writes:
Thisisto
J.A.CARR,
large mem-
more coming soon.”
more soon ”
U.
CO-OPER
eeming of that day when every-
er and myself.
I learned that Mr. and Mrs.
for that office.
ne-
ed first-hand while a guest at was a half-and-half tenant farm-
cattle had gone belonged to e
and
He paid that farm out by
est.
for low
were feeding
•dying with this request.
W. W. FTTZWATER
is necessary
was
pnham, Texas, R-5.
and free
Wrapped flat
as many was unusually clean
Mr. Fitz । son grass.
dents of my childhood.
It has not one bunci hogs en any.farm as the former from weeds.
On inquirv, I
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lems, and it is composed exclu- of them seemed to pay little at-
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tract tn organ for and go out arm
ed with the doctrine of the F. L.
1st at 16 a. m., for the purpose
of laying plans for the further
membership to secure subs for
our official organ—The UNION
NEWS, and to subscribe for it.
The amendment to raise the
ORGANIZER LUSK
PUTTING TERRY
COUNTY ON fur.
SALINECO.
F.LU.of A. DOING
BUSINESS RIGHT.
w. w. FITZWATER,
J. I. SMITHWICK,
GEORGE SHAW,
W. A. POOVEY.
A. C HOWERTON.
N. S. CRAWFORD,
A. M. HILIIARD.
O
w agent for the F. L.
sinee the 16th of Jan.
man who would not sell it; thal
the bottom on it was infested
ISSUES CALL FOR
MASK MEETING.
NUMBER so.
country neighborhoods
grade fertilizer at high
PUSHING THE
ORGANIZATION.
this meet important meeting.
B. T. LANGI.EY,
State President F. L. U.
the shoals, or fall into the hands
of our enemies.
with the various lncals.
G. W. EASTERLY,
County Secretary
Sheridan, Ark.
of giving this notice is this, then
i members who
D HAVE THEM
VW.
While sn the other hand Mr.
Barksdale could have sold cot-
ton not knowing if was Farm-
Labor Union eottor. Therefore
if you will notify me, if you have
sold cotton through him. giving
I believe it would be of benefit small fortune consisting of njne-
for some to know what I learn- ty dollars For a few years he
f ARM-LAR
the way without YOUR assist
stock. Me had a field of paper and renew when it’s up.
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the Fitzwater home. er.
He lives about right miles a tenant for the third and fourth
North of Bonham, in a section One day in 1916, his landlord in-
beyond the fertile black land, sisted on selling him the farm
kind of doctrine. The doctrine
that will lead them into green
pastures and by the still waters.
nrices. In his note to the Union
says many ordering
the book take move pnins than
C. F. LOWRIF,
Sec,y. Farmer-Labor Exchange.
Bro. R. B. Claridge of Salmon
Texas writes us he is sending
ent his little booklet: "Boiled
Munn Facts Ab sat Commercial
and yours. A
titutien
ib
fixing the silver Mr. Fitzwater is President, be-
cause I know that it is the only
rganizati
and some of his children sat in ments, with ten per cent inter- after, with Mr. Fitzwater
front of an old-fashioned fire-
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forts to aid those who are real-
ly engaged in farming loud in
their profession and very, very
short in their success as farm-
ers.
I am thoroughly . in accord
with the organization of which
nin county for the purpose of cultivate farms.
conferring with Mr. W. W Fitz- in view of the general discus-
water. President of the Farm-sion in the State about certain . .... auu -.e. wczuse zeunyang, ■ umuzuzuseu --g- __ ________— ----neenre M wm r*
______ ____Labor Union of America. I spent problems which affect the agri- Fitzwater came to Texas about Mzs, Fitzwater that I ate break- thirty or forty head of cattle. 8g 4, "inegs MNIm
CAGO EXCHANGE a mest pleasant night at his'cultural interests and which, for -------" ------- — "" “ ‘ “ m.— ie _
ing we have had yet. Brother
J. W. Williams being absent our
worthy Brother J. W. Ball pre-
sided.
The Saline county ,F. L. U. of
A. is now taking actual business
shape. We now have our county
sales agent buying supplies in
car lots and when the market
is right selling farm produce in
the same way.
Our sinking fund is growing
nicely. ,
Our next county convention
will be at Blunt Schoolhouse
with Maple Springs Local No.
rovrl he number of bales etc, since
.} Jan. 15, we can get the records
[ op straight, and you will do the or-
.ganizations a great favor by cam
On the hill-land near his resioy in
vuneN
freejBonl
wa^
him very highly as one of the
most valuable citizens in the
south possessing peculiarly clear
vision and sound judgment as
to conditions and the remedies
which must be applied to im -
prove the financial status of the
farmers ; but I had never had the
opportunity to know much of
his history and less of his per-
sonal achievements. Frequent-
seventeen years ago, from Ken- fast by 6:60 o’clock every morn- While watching the hogs and
home. During my acquaintance the general prosperity of all our tacky, arriving in this State ing, and was at work in my of- cattle ent, I noticed about
with him the past three or four people, must be properly solved, with six robust children and a
years, I had grown to esteem r *tmsk* * " • - — * - -
_ . _ Texarkana, Texas
East Union Saturday, February Dear Sir:
ganizati
ter and we will assure you that
we will do our utmost to safe-
our organization, and
county union in ArkaMBs to GRANT C0. ARK.
X asmany membeaan.ro- V. L. U. of A. DOING
henbit W. W. Fitzwater As IKnow Kb -By T. B Jones,
whet Very recently I visited Fan- sively of those who live on, and tention to the conversation con-' ---- -- • - -*- -*
The first of the year when the
National Committee met in Dal-
las, they put out a joint letter
Stating in the letter that con-
| tract yould be furnished all see-
retaries to be issued to organic
iers together with instructions
..........—--- and how to re-
'reive their money for such work.
Many have resnonded tn this
or letter, andhave"leceivedthleir heNION NEWS, which isgo-
Look at the label on your pa- ty on
r, if your time’s expired. let
Chicago, ■.,
Editor Union News,
Enclosed you will find receipt
for new local. Please note the
fact that I have organized an-
other local in Nacogdoches coun-
ty, Texas with nine good mem -
and they cleared it for him. .which will be for sale to other
ducted by their father and moth- Though the hogs he converted cotton farmers of Fannin coun-
the Johnson grass into cash. ty. In the same pen with his
Before retiring, I informed hogs he had a drove of some
fice by 6:30, and that I would thirty head of cattle up the bot-
not object to breakfast as early tom three or four hundred yards have any ^^,1 grievance
as suited her convenience. Some in a field on an adjoining foim. with Mr. Barksdale. The object
people who live in the country They had left the sleeping, giving this notice is this, there
believe that all of us who live in ground near the feed-pens and m have been members who
the cities are so foolish as to had gone into the other field a sent or hnd sent by the district
lose the best part of the day by little before sun-up, and as we comoress agents samples, not
------- — ------ ------------- —----- --------------; staying in bed until eight o’clock reached the wagon in which the — - - - •
Ho has a comfortable though un- on which he then resided, con- but I advised her that my retir- feed had been hauled to the pens
pretentious residence, with none sisting of one hundred and twen- ing hour was about twelve o’- Mr. Fitzwater informed me that
of the attractive conveniences ty-five acres of Johnson grass clock, and that I could not sleep the land to which that bunch of
of the city, such as electric land. He finally airreed to pur after 5:30 o’clock. So early the
lights, telephones, waterworks, chase the tarm for one dollar next morning I was at breakfast
etc. After supper, he, his wife cash and $2500 in ten equal pay- with the family; and soon there-
hership is the power to cope with
the powers that be. A good
large membership will cure the
financial ills of the organization.
1 Enough drops of water wiR make
la river. Enough members with
little dues will support the or-
As you organize, insist on the
members and urge them to take
_ one of the boys were out feeding
place in which was an old-fash- the latter part of 1919, and pur- the hogs and the cattle. During ing rent; that I
ioned fire, which reminded me of chased an additional tract of sev the past four weeks, having sold grass roots and that the drov
the days many years ago when enty-five acres, which is now al one hundred six-weeks old pigs of cattle which had attracts
I was growing up on a farm (so paid for. There are on it at $6 per head, to the farmers my attention * ‘ _
twenty miler from the railroad (about one hundred and twenty- of Fannin county . his herd was Johnson grass roots,
in the State of Mississippi. There; five acres of cleared bottom not so large; butLin all my trips C. ih* .
another thing that remind- land. When he purchased it, it, in the country in Texas, I have dence, I noticed that the grou
real farmers’ organization in _ _____„____.________________ _ „
this state, and, I think, in the' water’s children who walk about‘of that grass on it at this time, tenant-farmer had. I counted infornud that he had planted a
South, because it is founded on three miles to the rural school,and he said to me: "My bottom about twenty-five brood-sows considerable acreage in Sudan Don’t forget to keep an eye
those principles which must in were studving their lessons that land is worth $200.00 per acre.’ which, within the next sixty grass on which he pastured all on the date on the label of your
the end solve the farmers’ proh- night by the coal oil lamps. Some He did not kill the Johnson grass days will furnish in the neigh-of his
lems, and it is composed exclu- of them seemed to pay little at- by plowing it he raised hogs horhood of two hundred pigs "
ganization of their own—a real
dirt formers organization—The
Farm-Labor Union of Ameriea
with the aceent on the word LA-
_
in reporting to National head-
<d me of the scenes and inci - was largely covered with John- not seen one-fourth
WANTS TO DO OR.
GANIZATION WORK
$
Brother D. S. Byrd of Cem -
anche county Oklahoma writes
in askin information in forming
; n organization of the Farm-La-
’♦or Union in his county, saying
he is in a position to put in a
few weeks at the work and is
sure he will be able to bring in
a drove of "Oklahoma plow
boys." The National Secretary
is giving Brother Byrd the de-
sired “dope” to start him off,
and we’re predicting he’ll do his
share.
LABOR en the form.
An organization that is not
controlled by big business, no
more than the farmers control
hig business organizations.
Whenever yo hear of farmers
meeting with the business or-
ganizations. The formers arn
fixing to slip their heads into
a halter to be lead into other
pastures, that re not green and
where the living waters do not
in this letter we are calling
for more organizers, so call on
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Williams, Ellis. The Farm-Labor Union News (Texarkana, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1926, newspaper, February 25, 1926; Texarkana, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1558505/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .