Byline: Chester Goolrick, Paul Lieberman; 1979-12-01; Atlanta Constitution; pages 4A
Report: "The Underpaid and Under-Protected" - Chester Goolrick and Paul Lieberman - Atlanta Constitution
Tags: georgia, low-wage earners, turpentine workers, worked as
"The bosses treated you mean back then. If you didn't do it, you wouldn't get nothin', and if you did do it, you'd only get half of what you did. They used to beat 'em, used to kill 'em, they used to do everything to colored. I was on a job once in Blue Creek, Florida. Ain't no timber there now. Well, the 'skeeters was so bad, people jus' wouldn't work, and 'cause the people wouldn't take the 'skeeters, the man would go to the house and beat 'em up, jump on their wives, wouldn't allow them to come back."
Description:Profile of Jim Palmer, who recalls life as a worker in the turpentine woods.
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