Abstract

On the Alabama Front

This article informs about the strike in the cotton fields in central Alabama involving approximately 3,000 cotton pickers and wage hands. The strike is spreading rapidly into other countries in which the Share-Croppers' Union is organized. This strike differs from a factory strike in that the cotton opens at different times in different places and the pickers must wait until they are called to work before they announce that they are striking. The lie is given to the "red scare" of the newspapers by the strikers themselves. The miserable conditions under which they work, the starvation wages of $3 a week and less, the denial of all civil and constitutional rights have united all the cotton pickers, wage hands, and rural relief workers in a determined struggle to win.