FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND INDUSTRIAL UNION. 173 



National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union of 

 America. 



S. B. ERWIN, Chairman, 



N. S. HALL, Secretary, 



J. D. HAMMONDS, 



F. M. BLUNT, 



B. H. CLOVER, 



M. PAGE, 



J. R. MILES, 



W. H. BARTON, 



N. A. DUNNING, 



J. D. HATFIELD, 

 S. B. ALEXANDER, 

 D. K. NORRIS, 

 H. S. P. ASHBY, 

 R. F. PECK, 

 R. C. BETTY, 

 W. S. MORGAN, 

 J. W. TURNER, 

 A. S. MANN, 



S. M. ADAMS, 



Committee on Demands of the National Farmers' Alliance and 

 Industrial Union. 



T. V. POWDERLY, RALPH BEAUMONT, 



A. W. WRIGHT, 

 Committee Representing the Order of the Knights of Labor. 



The Committee on Cotton Tare and Bagging reported 

 as follows: 



4 ' MR. PRESIDENT Your Committee on Cotton Bag- 

 ging and Tare on Cotton Bales beg leave to submit the 

 following report: 



' ' We recommend to this body that you demand that 

 all future cotton crops be sold at net weight with actual 

 tare and the advance in price over the present tare 

 that is just and equitable; and that each State Alliance or 

 Union in the ' ' Cotton Belt ' ' secure from their respective 

 Legislatures such legislation as will enforce this demand. 



4 ' Your Committee further recommend that all cotton 

 producers connected with this organization be required to 

 use cotton bagging as a covering for cotton, or any other 

 fiber than jute, and that said cotton bagging shall be 44 

 inches wide and not less than twelve ounces per yard in 

 weight, and of the same texture as the Odenheimer cot- 

 ton bagging. 



