Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sjamboks (whips), shipped to distant farms for three or six months, often unable even to notify relatives or employers that they are leaving. South African police instituted the system in 1954, but its workings were not generally known, even in South Africa, until 33-year-old Johannesburg Lawyer Joel Carlson started a series of habeas corpus actions fortnight...
...Carlson produced affidavits indicating that native workers are often brutally beaten by farm superintendents and that most of them live in hideous squalor. They get sacks to wear in the fields and are fed cold porridge, occasionally with scraps of meat. At night workers are herded into rude shacks to sleep on filthy gunny sacks spread on cement floors. In some cases workers who die on the job are buried, without reports being made either to a doctor or police. "Africans sent to the farms firmly believe they have been 'sold' to farmers," Carlson charged. "Police and labor...
Officials argue that their system cleans the cities of vagrants, helps the harvest and saves the government money. Last week in Pretoria Supreme Court, Justice Quartus De Wet, after hearing arguments that the system has no basis in law, remarked sternly, "The court cannot countenance this procedure." Crusading Lawyer Carlson allowed himself a smile and a side remark: "At last we seem to be getting somewhere...
Tragedy and Snafu. Able will now be stuffed. At the suggestion of Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas, she will be exhibited at Independence, her officially claimed birthplace, then moved to a permanent showplace in Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...David Lawrence, editor of US. News and World Report. He has presented information to the people against the subversive influence of those who would impose their sociological theories on us in matters which neither the people nor their elected congress have made law. SIDNEY T. H. CARLSON Tallahassee...