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'South Victim Of
I Adverse National
Says Bailey
j North Carolina's Senior Senator
Says South'* Task is That of
"Getting After Highly Years, a
1 Square Deal in The National
Policy . . .to He Hail (hiiy by
Political I'll imatllluV
I The best explanation of thej
1 President's statement that the.
South is the Nations Economic |
problem No. 1 is given in the text
of Senator Bailey's speech deliv
! ered Thursday night over the
\' B. c. Program. "America a |
Town Meeting of the Air," un der
the auspices of the Caro lina Po-|
litical Union at the University of (
I North Carolina. .
Mr. Bailey's subject oil this oc
casion was "Is the South the Na
t ion's Economic Problem No. i .
[The text of his speech follows: (
I. What is alleged as the basis
of the statement that the **
the Nation's Xo. Economic l*rob- ?
lem? ? w~l
i The President says it is tne
problem of low Industrial wages
1 and low family tousunier income j
in the South as compared with
: Other regions.
What are the facts?
1. In the report relied on by the .
President, the National Emergen-;
icy Council declares: "During the
ivear 1933 the percentage of wages
l to the value added by manufac- 1
ture was 60.8 in five States In New
England as against 55. o in tne
Southern States." So what. And
i why go back to 1933?
The standard of ratio of wages
I to value added by manufacture is
correct: but the comparison is
manifestly unsound and mislead
inc It proves nothing. NN e must
compare all the Southern States
' with all the others as of most re
, cent dates? not five unnamed
Southern States with five unnamed
New England States as of 1934.
, 1 The fact is the southern textiles
pav in wages 64.4 per cent of the
1 value added by manufacture. The
National average is 62.2.
All industrial workers in the
South are paid, within one point ot
the National average paid in w. x
es of the value added by lii^tiu
1 facture. The South s ratio is Si. 9;
the National ratio is 38.7. Com
? pare North Carolina with New
York City. We pay Ne*
'York pays 30.5. One might say
that New York City is the Nation s
. Economic Problem Ny. 1. if cur
1 rent logic is to be accepted.
2. But it is contended that con
sunn, i funiily tiiomii" i" ">? South
' is so far below the National stand
ittrd that It constitutes the South
the Nation's Economic Problem
No 1 What are the facts? .
Here is the 1938 statement of
the President's National Resour
i ces Committee on Consumer In
1 comes on Average Income pel
I Family: National Average $161.
iper year. Southern Average $1,
,326, difference $286.
Does the difference (IT per
! cent (.constitute the South the Na
i Hon s Economic Problem No. 1 .
! vve fall below the group of Moun
tain States by only $37; below tne
I National average by only $-8b
? And we offset the small deficiency
by lower taxes, short winters,
abundant gardens, smaller fuel
bills, lower rents. There is a fur
ither significant factor ? in that the
\YPA pays workers $600 per year
in the North compared with $..60
1 per year in the South ? and the
1 income data is for all
And remember $16. 000, 000, 000
) have been distributed on this ba
sis since June. 1933. Southern real
; Income is obviously not less than
the National Average and probably
above it. And it is nearly twice the
I Income received by one-third of
'.the Nation.
And this notwithstanding we
have a population of 2,500,000 ne
gro workers, unskilled. noUthly
low wealth producers, competing
with all other unskilled wo/kers.
It is granted that wage/ in cer
tain trades peculiar to certain lo
calities In the North ar* higher ?
in the manufacture of iiutomobiles,
steel products, finished goods, for
example, and that/this plus Fed
eral aid has lifted the general
money wage level In the North
above the Southern level. But Is It
proposed that the South go Into
those types of production? By no
means: the contention Is that we
must pay In textile Industries wag
? es equal to wages paid in the man
1 ufacture of automobiles, machin
es, machine tools, finished goods.
Wages are In direct ratio to
wealth produced, and a worker In
fibres Is never paid as Is a worker
in steel or automobiles. There Is
need of more such Industries In
the South, and as they come they
will pay wages commensurate with
the value added by manufacture
as the textiles do.
The whole theory is blown up
not only by the data as to wages
and Income, but by simple facts of
current record. Federal relief ex
penditure Is more than twice per
capita In the Nurth and West than
In the South. Pennsylvania with
9,000,000 population gets more
relief motley than eleven Southern
States with 29,000,000 population.
New York State gets more than
thirteen Southern States. Kxpen
dltures per family per State in
eight States exceed $200 per year;
but in no Southern State do relief
expenditures amount to $100 per
family, No Southern State receiv
ed the equal per family of the Na
tional average In WPA, PWA and
CCC payments. Only three South
ern States received the equal per
family of the National average In
.AAA payments. The South has
| wlth^ood the long depression bet
ter than any other ? scction, as [
shown by every chart of trade and
industry from 1929 until now, and j
it has received less of Federal aid '
in every activity. It could not have I
done so without relatively super- j
ior economic conditions.
The South has not only the '
highest birth rate, but its death ;
rate is lower than the National av- 1
erage. The (1937) figures are: j
Death rate in the South 10.8 per
thousand: for the United States1
11.2. And death rates are related j
to poverty.
Such are the facts exploding the
theory of the South as the Na- '
tion's Economic Problem No. 1 as
founded upon comparisons of wag
es und income. All figures are de
rived from official sources and
may be verified.
II. There in no Nation'* prob
lem here except the problem of n
just National policy. "All else ? and i
I Ilut, too, 1 think? is for South- ,
em men ancl women. What is that
problem ?
The National policy for eighty
years has favored other regions
and been adverse to the South.
Freight rates have long, been high
er in Southern territory than in
Northern ? an internal tariff for
the North and against the South.
The Federal Government subsidiz
ed great railroad systems from the
West to the North ? and not a
mile in the South or to the South.
There were billions in pensions to
Union soldiers, none to the South,
linmeuse sums have been spent,
developing canals, rivers and har
bors and ports serving the North
? comparatively small sums In the
South. The Congress has maintain
ed an external tariff policy frank
ly contrived to aid Northern indus
try at the expense of the South.
Only two American farm products
are taxed by the Federal Govern
ment; both are Southern crops:
one tobacco ? from which as con
verted into cigarettes the Federal
Government takes one dollar per
pound; the other cottou, the oil
produced by the seed of which is
taxed at rates intended to be pro
! hibltive when converted into food.
I Not to mention so-called cotton
and tobacco control taxes ? the on
ly crop production taxes in the Re
1 public. Mr. Secretary Wallace says
that Federal curtailment of the
cotton crop was equivalent to pro
viding a market for 150.000,000
bushels of Western corn? i. e.
? $90,000,000 contributed in tile
midst of the depression by South
ern cotton farmers to Western
corn producers! Consider the sec
tion oi the farm control act inten
ded to deprive Southern farmers
of Federal benefits if they incrsase
production in grain, live stock,
i dairy products or poultry und eggs
? for market. Consider the Ameri
can Trade Agreement in .which
concessions are made to Canada at
the expense of Southern pine. Con
sider the Trade Agreement with
the United Kingdom in which con
cessions were obtained (or West
ern wheat, but none for Southern
cotton or Southern tobacco ? upon
which latter England continues to
impose $2.50 per. pound! Conces-,
sions for the North and West bur
dens for the South. And recent
public policy has accelerated the
loss of the foreign market for our
cotton. We may be pardoned for
being impatient of advices from
Federal authorities until they give
us Justice.
III. There In a Southern tank
mid it Is largely the task of get
ting. after eighty years, u square
deal in tlie National policy. That
is to be liad only by political ulti
matum plus the will to exact it.
With a determined National pol
icy against us. since 1870. South
ern men and women have increas
ed Southern property values from
5 billion dollars to 70 billion dol
lars ? 1400 per cent ? 20 per cent
a year net gain in wealth for 7 0
consecutive years, after paying all
living expenses and a great share
of the Fedral taxes. Amongst oth
er things Southerners are paying
annually $500,000,000 in life in
1 sunuice premiums. With the Na
1 tional policy against us, our pop
ulation has multiplied by three,
jour wealth by fourteen. And now
they tell us we are the Nation's
problem child. Bankrupted by war,
razed to the earth by Ueconstruc
i tion, and throttled ever since by
I an adverse National policy, the
progress of the South under the
circumstances proclaims its advan
tages and the capacity of the Sou
thern people.
IV. It must be considered that
tlie South is agricultural, and
therefore improvement of the sta
tus must be directed to furuier
prosperity.
The essence here is that . the
farmer's purchasing power cannot
be improved so long as there is
gross disparity between prices he
i receives and prices he pays. Here
I present the adverse consequen
' ces to a great agricultural region
of erer-increasing costs of govern
ment reflected W taxes and a Na
tional policy of elevating indus
trfal wage levels by law, by taxa
tion and by coercion under admin
istrative favor. ' Each factor in
creases prices paid by farmers and
tends to reduce their real income.
It amounts to price-fixing without/
protection to the farmers either
when buying or when selling! /
It is agreed that 2.000.000 ^cot
I ton farmers are receiving Inade
quate rewards for their cotton.
National policy has required them
to sell in a free world ma/ket and
j buy in a protected home' market;
land at long la3t:undy National
| policy they see their foreign mar
|ket vanishing, uijfl they are turn
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ing to the production of food* for , [
the domestic market. It is a shift
of great import not only to the ti
South but to food producers in the J n
North and Middle West. It por- 1 v
tends good rather than evil for the p
South, tending to . establish the
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ancy. As to the capacity of South- , |
em farmers, consider that under |
adverse Nationnl policy they in- 1 .
creased the annual value of their! J
crops from six hundred million
dollars in 1870 to three billion i
three hundred million dollars in!1
1937. 1
It is not contended that the
South has no problems It is 1
agreed that there are great and de- *
sirable advances to be made. Rut 1
it is denied that upou the facts (
Southern problems and needs con- '
stitute in any aspect the Nation's
No. 1 Economic Problem. And it
is contended that Southern people
have proved under most adverse
conditions their capacity to attend
to their affairs. Federal interfer
ence once destroyed us. Federal
handicaps have held us back for
eighty years. Remove them and
the South under Southern leader
ship will show the way to all the
country. *?
V. Finally, agreeing tlmt there 1
is an Economic problem peculiar
to the South, can It l>e regarded
as the Nation's No. I Economic t
Problem?
How about the problem of in
ducing return to the investment by I
private persons of twelve billion^
dollars annually in private untt'i'- j
irise ?
How about the problem of re
urniug 11,000.000 persons to nor
ual employment ? by far the most
>f them iu th eNorth in ratio to
iopulation?
How about the problem of lift
ng the National real income to 90
lillion dollars?
How about the problem of act
uating the relation of employed
md employee?
How about the problem of res
oring equilibrium in our iuternu
ional trade?
How about the problem of 40,
>00.000 Americans drawing mou
sy from public treasuries ? by far
;he most of them in the North in
ratio to population?
Is it contended that solution of
the problem ol the South will solve
: those great problems ? or is pri
mary to their solution? If so, the
: people -of the United States are
far better off than any oue has
thought them to be these nine
| years.
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1938, It suffered a decline of 7.6
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