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MINEOLA, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1906.
No. 10
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Mississippi County (Ark.) Union
Organized.
The various local Unions in
Mississippi County, Arkansas,
met March 5, and organized a
County Union. The following of-
ficers were elected: Joe Lynch,
president; F. D. Robertson, vice-
president; W. D. Pierce, Secreta-
ry-treasurer; James Craig Coun-
ty lecturer. Other officers were
elected, after which we listened
to a very interesting talk made
by brother H. *B. Levels of Black-
ton. The meeting adjourned to
meet with Blytheville, May 26th.
We have some wide awake Un-
ion men in our county and we
are doing business. Our local
was organized less than a year
ago. I joined and was made sec-
retary-treasurer. I was green
as to my duty and realized the
,needofhelp. I sent a dollar and
got the great helper—The Na-
tional Co-Operator—which helps
me prepare a good lecture for
my local every meeting. The Co-
Operator is the best educator the
Union has, and 1 would suggest
that every Union man take it and
get the outsiders to take it. By
doing so, you will be doing a
great work for the Union cause.
We have a great many critics in
this county who say the Union
will go like the Alliance and
Wheel. I don't believe it. The
Farmers' Union will profit bv
the mistakes of the Alliance and
Grange. So, brother farmers,
don't stand back and say that
you know the Union won't do any-
thing, but join in with us and we
will do something. We are going
to fix the price of all our farm
produce, and be able to say the
price is so much, and not have to
ask the speculator and others
what they will give. We can do
this by concentrated action and
loyal co-operation. We have the
remedy if we will apply it. Take
the Co-Operator and read good
Union literature and learn to be
Co-Operators.
W. D. Pierce, Co. Sec.
Blytheville, Ark., March 12.
Something Doing in Alabama.
Editor National Co-Operator:
As I have been a readerof your
valuable paper for some time, I
beg space in its columns to give
the brotherhood a few items
from the hills of old North Ala
bama. New Hope Union was or-
ganized in July, 1905, with nine
members. It seemed that we
were at a standstill for two or
three months, but at last the
good people of our county got
their eyes open and we now have
a membership of fifty and the
whole county is well organized
We domostofourbuyingthrough
brother P. F. Parker, S. B. A.
I wish to congratulate Bro. Par-
ker for the success we have made
through his office. We find him
ever up to his every duty and
will'serve the membership of the
Farmers' Union in Alabama to
the limit of his strength. We buy
our guano direct from the facto-
ry and expect to as long as we
use it. Now, brethren we are
up and have hold of that which
is commanded at our bands; and
that is to love one another, help
each other, ce-operate together,
and the victory will be ours.
Our president of New Hope,
Bro. A. A. Harp, visited the State
meeting at Clanton, Ala. He
states that he was never at a
grander meeting. Now is the
accepted time for all the farm-
ers to put their shoulders to the
wheel and push long and strong;
and above all things ask Mr. Pol-
itician to hunt himself another
job. Fraternally,
A. J. Green, Sec.
Haleysville, Ala.
A Line with Union Men.
Salado Union, No. 773, of which
I am a member, now has a mem-
bership of 40 and is growing very
fast. We hold meetings each
Fridav night and are getting
along well. This part of the
country is alive with Union men
and all are at work in the Union
in earnest. We are preparing
through this section to live and
be more independent than we
have been in the past; diversify
more extensively, keep our corn
cribs nearer home and our smoke-
houses close by. We are build-
ing potato houses and hen hous-
es, setting our land in fruit and
berries and preparing in many
ways to live at home, as "The
home is the hope of the nation."
If we all would raise as much as
we could of everything we need-
ed at home and make our cotton
a surplus crop, we would always
have plenty to live on and Tiave
plenty of money to spend, too;
and until we adopt some other
plan than the one we are follow-
ing, just that long we will be de-
pendent. The thing for many
of us to do is to economize, cur-
tail all the expenses we can, live
more frugal, be more industrious
and liye happier and be more
cheerful.
Homer Smith.
Salado, Ark., March 13.
Something Doing in Louisiana.
Editor Co-Operator:
The Union work in Saline Par-
ish is moving along nicely, new
members coming all the time.
Louisiana is standing bv the
National Union. Pleasant Hill
local No. 38, unanimously adopt-
ed the National Constitution.
Our Parish Union meets at
Many, April 26. A big time is
anticipated.
Success to The Co-Operator.
I. N. McCollister,
Nat. Ex. Com.
Ratten, La., March 14, 1906.
Notice.
Clad well County Union meets
with McNiel Local Union Tues-
day and Wednesday April 3-4.
J. E. Montgomery.
Kyle Tex. March 17.
Then the Mortgage System will
Be No flore.
To the Co-Operator—Greeting:
Our local union is small in num-
ber but large in faith. A strong-
er brotherhood in our Union nev-
er existed. I don't think a more
loyal band of brothers and sis-
ters can be found than is in our
local union. The Union is a great
business and fraternal order.
Had it not been for the good
brothers and sisters of the Union
I do not know what I would have
done during the illness of mv
husband, who lay sick with ty-
phoid-pneumonia. The Union is
doing a good work in this part of
Louisiana. The merchants are
getting uneasy, believing that the
people are becoming educated to
the point where they will be able
to transact their own business
without the merchant's assist-
ance, which is true, and I long to
see the day when the farmer will
do his own reading and thinking.
Brethren, I beseech you to take
the Union papers; study them,
and the principles of the
Farmers' Educational and Co-Op-
erative Union of America. Pull
together in a united body, and
when this is done the day will
soon come'when the Farmers Un-
ion banner will wave over the
homes of the farmers and the
land of the brave and do away
with the mortgage system.
Alice Cocheran.
Jonesyille, La., March 11.
Mississippi State Union.
To the Member of the Farmer* Union of
MlHHlHNlppi :
Dear Brethren:
Having been elected your Sec-
retary-Treasurer, at our State
Meeting in Jackson, March 13,
it is necessary that I address
you this letter. We had a very
harmonious State Meeting and a
set of officers were elected who
command the respect of the en-
tire membership, and of the peo-
ple among whom they live. We
now have our independence. No
more money will be sent out of
our State in fees and dues except
the small amount which will be
sent by your State Secretary to
the Secretary of the National Un-
ion, to be used for National pur-
poses. The fees and dues remain
as before. Send 50 per cent, of
the initiation fee to this office
quarterly, send 25 per cent, to
your County Secretary and retain
25 per cent, in your local treas-
ury. The dues are 15 cents a
quarter in advance. Send 5 cents
for each member to this office
quarterly, and 5 cents for each
member to your County Secre-
tary and retain 5 cents per mem-
ber in your local treasury. It is
very essential that these reports
be sent to this office as early as
possible each quarter. I will en-
deavor to keep local secretaries
supplied with blanks on which to
make their reports. When you
are in need of such blanks write
me and they will be sent to you
free of charge by return mail. A
new quarter is soon to begin.
Send in your reports at the very
earliest moment possible. We
are setting up in business for
ourselves without a dollar in the
treasury, and the work will be
somewhat hampered till money
comes in with which to push the
work of organization.
Dear brother, we are the sev-
enth State Union to be organized.
Let us place the Mississippi State
Union where it belongs —in the
front rank. We can do this if we
try. Will you assist your officials
in this work? We believe you
will. If every loyal member of
our grand organization will do his
full duty, it will only be a short
time till we will have a large mem-
bership and will be able to assist
in establishing just and equitable
prices for our produce, which is
the one great object of our organ-
ization. There are now four hun-
dred thousand members of this
organization, and we have done
much toward establishing a fair
price for our cotton during the
past two years. Indeed, it was
through the influence of the Far-
mers Union that the price of cot-
ton has been brought from a star-
avtion price to a living price. Our
work has only begun. When we
get one million of organized, co-
operating farmers, we will not
only control the price of our cot-
ton, but will be able to control
the price of all our other staple
products
In conclusion permit me to say
that your secretary will do every-
thing in his power for you at all
times. My whole time will be
devoted to the work, and it will
be a pleasure to me to assist you
in every way possible.
Trusting that our work so well
begun will go on till we indeed
have justice, equity and the Gold-
en Rule. I am
Fraternally yours,
G. W. RUSSELL,
Secretary - Treasurer Mississip-
pi State Union.
Hazlehurst, Miss., March 21.
Dear Union Brothers:
Don't you believe that if you
co-operatively own the cotton
mills right in the cotton patch,
that it would increase the value
of your cotton at least $1.00 per
bale, and if you produce 5 bales,
is not that the amount that is
necessary, and all that is requir-
ed if you will co-operatively start
them? Is it not true, that by so
doing you will have an interest
in the Woolen Mills, which is an-
other advantnge?
Then, how many flour sacks do
you suppose the millers in the
United States use a year? Well,
it may be news to you, but they
stand ready to co-operate with
you in owning the mill that works
up your cotton and that makes
his bags. This all accounts for
the action of the Texas State
Convention, and now that they
have endorsed our plan, you can
not question but what they satis-
fied themselves that these plans
are correct, else they would not
have endorsed them.
These plans really are the first
practical ones presented, that
meet the wants of the individual
producer, wage-worker and con-
sumer.
It you have not taken this mat-
ter up in your local, it would per-
haps be well to do so at once.
Talking does not do these things;
It requires action.
Rio Grande Woolen Mills Co.,
Co ■ Operative, Johney H.
Bearrup, President.
Albuquerque, N. M.
The Great Advocate of Union
Principles.
Brother Pyle: — Inclosed find
list of subscribers for the Na-
tional Co-Operator, the best pa-
per that is published' advocating
Union principles. Union people,
if vou will take the Co-Operator
and read it and if it don't make
thoroughbred Union people out
of you, just let me know and I
will pay for the cigars. I am glad
to inform Union people that our
local union has a membership of
45 good Union men, and they are
coming in every meeting. This
is the.result of having the great
lecturer—The National Co-Oper-
ator—in the community and at
every meeting of the Union. We
need education. Le us educate
ourselves by reading the Nation-
al Co-Operator and learn how to
cooperate with each other as much
as we can and learn to attend to
our own business. I think the
other fellow has been attending
to it long enough. Now, brother
farmers, if vou want to educate
yourselves to your best interest,
read and study the National Co-
Operator. Fraternally,
W. M. Peacock.
Lampassas, Tex., March 10.
Farmers Union Build Their own
Warehouses.
Vesta, Ark., March, 9.—Vesta
Local Union No. 1002, met in reg-
ular session on the above date
and passed the following resolu-
tions:
Resolved, That we keep out
of debt as much as possible, and
raise our living at home.
Further resolved, That we
set a minimum price of 12J4 cts.
per pound on our cotton for 1906,
and that the Farmers Union
build their own warehouses, in-
dependent of the Southern Cot-
ton Growers Association, and let
ownership be collectively. No
stock or bonds to be issued, no
interest for or against. Run and
operate at actual cost. i
Resolved further, That a copy
of these resolutions be sent to
the Co-Operator for publication.
Nat Porch,
J. Sivils,
W. A. Crosser,
Committee.
Makes a Good Team.
Please send mv paper to E. M.
Parker, R. R. No. 4, Dyersbug,
Tenn. I think it is the best pa-
per lever read, and I don't want
to miss a copy. It is the paper
for all laboring people to read.
I want to thank you people for
sending our dearly beloved J T.
Upton to organize the Farmers'
Union in Tennessee. Brother
Upton is a great man and is the
laboring man's friend and wor-
thy of all the space he occupies.
I want to say that Bro. Upton and
The National Co-Operator make
Union men wherever they go.
Success to the Co-Operator and
its many readers.
Fraternally
F. M. Parker.
Dyersburg, Tenn., March 12.
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Pyle, O. P. The National Co-Operator (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 21, 1906, newspaper, March 21, 1906; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth254307/m1/1/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.