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Farmers Union Bure u of Information -Conducted by the South Carolina Farmers' Eduea tional and Co-Operation Union. SWCommunications intended for this department should be addressed to J. C S:ribling, Pendleton, S. C. At the second annual meeting of the South Carolina division of the Farmer's Union held at Greenwood 25-27 of July, about 850 members were present in executive session. These men of the farms wore up on their countenances a determined look that means much. They feel confident of their ability to maintain the positition they have taken in man aging the.ir own affairs in their own way and their success verifies this opinion. National President C. S. Barrett of Atwater, Ga., addressed -the meeting at 8 o'clock for a period of two hours. Among other things, he said the un ion was now more harmonious than any others farmers' organization had ever been in the south before. The average growth of the union is now over 3,000 members a day, some days it reaches 5,000 and 6,000, new mem bers. The enrolled membership now is over one and a half million. None of the state organizations have any debts and there is more or less money in the treasury of every state oiganization. The national .treasurer has considerable money to his credit. One of the most important things in connection with the Farmers' un ion is the tale now current that the organization is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor. Much has been said about this matter of affiliation with the general federa tion and the attitude of many good and conservative men on the outside has been undecided towards the or ganization jpending a statempnt of its position. President Barret was asked this question: "Is the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union affiliated with the American Federa tion of Labor?" The answer was "No," and in his address 'to the meeting here he cautioned the mem bers to "go slow about affiliating with any organization.'' He further said: "Why shold we affiliate when the Farmers' union is now strong enough' and powerful enough to ae complish any thing that it wants to that is just and right?"' The second session of the Farmers' union opened at 9 o'clock last night. Pres. 0. P. Goodwin called the meet ing to order and introduced Hon. G. M. Davis of Atlanta, Ga., state or ganizer of the Georgia disvision. Mr. Davis was the sole speaker of the levening - and spoke for about two hours. He made a good, sound, prac tical talk, and one that the delegates have talked about more 'than that of any other. He spoke of the- harmon *ious working of the Georgia union and told of the magniflcent appro priation by the state of Georgia for agricultural district schools and urg ed that South Carolina take steps alon~g th's-same -line. He said: "You know everybody says the farmer won't stick, but the farmers of Georgia who won't stick to the union get stuck.'' In regard to the .high price of cotton, he said that 25-cent cotton would ruin the farming interests of the South. It xau:a cause the mill pxple to qm1' si mingil a;ya at go to podt:iing-: Speak'ing e.f polities and men - moQoted u et': >n of polisc ndaning the orga-ni;: ien of any o: panis:tiona ''That as the national goverma!at hias instituted a strict quarantine against cattle ticks, so the Farmers' union had- instituted a strict quarantine against polities.'' At the close of his speech the evening meeting closed. The first meeting today was called; to order at 9 o'clock. The court house -was well filled. Hon. T. T. Wakefield of Anderson.: ~president of the Anderson county un ion and vice president of the state divisioii, introduced the following res olution as the work of the committee on the operation in cotton -baling, handling and marketing. The resolu tion is as follows: "We favor a system of uniform baling of eotton into packages of 24 inches wide by 36 inches long; that the cotton be covered neatly and se curely with any serviceable wrapping, our preference being g'ven to cotton wrapper; that we approve the cotton union system of marketing cotton.'' - tl11a. in.. National President C. s. Arrt made an 'address to the general public in the court house. He stated among other things that he had talked Farmers' union so mueli that he had about forgotten every thing else he ever knew. He said the Farmers' unions of the south now own and opera.te 1,000 warehouses of their own. "We do not own or operate any stores.'' he said. The man who +o' stick himself is the one who i aln;ays sayin:g the other fellow won't tiek. The old farmer has ot enl,u1 of partizan polities. The Farmners union stands for more improvemeni in rural sc(hools. Only one of the whole numier of the present nationa oficials of the Farmers' union has ev er held any political office or been iti polities. The following officers were elected at an executive session thi President. 0. P. Goodwin, Laurens Vice president, T. T. Wakefield Anderson. Secretary-treasurer, B. F. Earle Anderson. Chaplain. A. B. Black, Greenville. A state organizer is to be elected by the executive committee at a later late. Quite a number of delegate have expressed their desire for the Georgia organizer, Mr. Davis, and il is probable that an effort will be made to secure his servi(es in this state. The other officers are: H. T. Camp bell, doorkeeper; S. W. Wideman conductor; J. Wade Dixson, and W. E. Hopkins, sergeants-at-arms, exec utive committeemen, J. B. Pickett, W. L Anderson, J. C. Roggs, W. C Brown, W. L. Kennedy. Delegate tc the national meeting at Little Rock September 3, J. C. Stribling of Pen dleton. Delegates to the Cotton Grow ers' and Spinners' convention, W. 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