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JAMIE STONEY: (inaudible) a flash. Without looking at me, Billy, look up like
that, I want you to just start into the letter from there. And look down and pick up the letter.BILL WINN: This is a letter addressed to Hugh Johnson who was head of the NRA,
and it comes from some workers at Eagle and Phoenix Mill in Columbus, Georgia. "Please accept my congratulations for you and Mr. Roosevelt as being the two greatest men on earth. I am writing you in regards to the textile code. Please excuse me if I am wrong, but the way I understand it, no textile worker was supposed to take on any more work, but my wife was laid off today because she refused to take on four more looms. She works for W.C. Bradley, the hardest piece of humanity on earth, at the Eagle and Phoenix Mill in Columbus, Georgia. Now I've had wove and fixed looms for over three years. I've been disabled to 00:01:00work on account of pellagra. Thank God I didn't have to work much for Hoover. Will you please investigate this matter? I am sincerely looking to you for support. Thanking you in advance for any favor you might return me, I am yours very truly, A.L. Williams." That letter, of course refers to pellagra, which was a terrible scourge in these -- in this part of the country along with hook worm, and was a dietary disease, it was discovered ultimately. And I think it might be interesting to read an account of a meeting called by William Anderson, who was president of Bibb Manufacturing Company here in Columbus in 1931 because it has reference to diet, and might explain some of the causes of pellagra among the local mill workers. Uh, this is, uh, dated September the 15th 1934 but it's an account of a meeting that took place three years earlier. "On Sunday October the 00:02:00first 1931, William D. Anderson, President, Bibb Manufacturing Company, had some twelve hundred of his workers assemble at what he called a rally in a schoolhouse in Columbus, Georgia. Anderson had bought the -- brought these mill workers together to enlighten their minds. They were already on short time, and cotton mill wages on full time are pretty scanty. But Mr. Anderson told them that they would have no trouble in caring for themselves if they bought the right foods. Here is a list of supplies which he set forth as ample for a textile worker's family of four persons for an entire week: 24 pounds of flour at sixty cents; four pounds of lard, 35 cents; eight pounds of potatoes, 16 cents; and a peck of cornmeal at 25 cents for a total expenditure of a dollar and 36 cents for the week." You can see that this diet is well in -- calculated to induce pellagra as well as other dietary disease. It contains no vegetables 00:03:00and no meat and no fresh milk.GEORGE STONEY: Good. Thank you.
WINN: That's it.
GEORGE STONEY: Great.