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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

THE PLAINS

Red Weekly No. 174, 1976 · p. 10 of the scan · 189 words

The scan: rw-no174-nov-11-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 10 of the scan

JIMMY CARTER may lust after some people, but he loves everybody. So he 3433Militant reporter Greg Cornell visited his home town and discovered that Carter loves the black women of Plains, Georgia, so much that. in his employed most of them. Almost every other black woman in Plains has worked for the Carter family at one time or anoiner. erner as a comestic servant or m the peanut plant.

• Like Lillian Picket, who earns $5 for every four hours work she does for Mister Jimmys morier * Like Ruth Harvey, who earned $12 for twenty hours work as a domestic servant to Carter in 1966. She is now unemployed.

* Like Ruth's sister Emma, who earned $17 for a full week in the peanut plant in the 1950s. She, too, is unemployed.

• Like Jewell Wiley, Ethell Marshall, Ruth Jackson, Emma Montes, Clark and many others Carter servants, all now unemployed.

Emma Harvey wants factories built in Plains to provide work. There is not much chance of that. Carter wants to keep the town as a residential zone and maintain his country-boy image.

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