Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"At Industry Prospert-So Prosper The People" Extended Labor? Is It Fair? """ ? ACED with a threatening competition which relentlessly demands better cotton goods at lower prices; Fand realizing that competition can only be successfully met through a permanent reduction in pro duction costs; many manufacturers of South Carolina as well as of other Southern cotton manufac turing states, have adopted at heavy cost for new and improved machinery what is commonly known as the "extended labor system. rhe intricate nature of the textile industry has caused a misunderstanding in some cases of the meth ods adopted. These methods have been in use in many South Carolina mills for years with pleasing results. Particularly have they been successful in mills where there is a closer understanding between officials and operatives and a mutual appreciation of each others problems. As a basis of agreement in a South Carolina mill recently, both officials and operatives concluded that "The fundamental principles of extended labor are correct when properly applied." The essentials of extended labor, applied principally to the weave room, lie in relieving the weave': of all but the more technical operations of weaving; thus lifting him out of the class of common laborer anc elevating him to the position of skilled specialist. His assistants attend to the more laborious and simpler duties. Thus the weaver is enabled to give his wihole time to weaving. In his new capacity as expert weaver, he is enabled to supervise more looms and thus earn greater wages. In one South Carolina cotton mill the weaver who formerly alone attended 24 looms can now with more ease, less exertion and greater skill, care for a hundred looms with the help of his assistants. With 100 looms, his work is no heavier and his health is in no way jeopardized. However, the number of looms attended is not an accurate measure of the weaver's ac complishments, for with different mills the widtth of the cloth varies, and with the width the number of threads per inch alse varies. Some threads are coarse, others fine; some yarns are strong, others weak; and the more closely spaced the threads, the more difficult the weave. Thus it is obvious that in one mill the handling of 50 looms could be more difficult than the operation of 100 in another. Under the new system the plincipal duty of the weaver is that of tying broken threads. With auto matic looms the machine stops for every broken thread. Production costs are largely gauged by loom stops. As broken threads result from many causes, and there is a limit to the number of threads a weaver can tie in a day, manifestly no mill can install the new system until so organized as to eliminate defects all along the journey of the cotton through its machinery. No mill can successfully put in a system of extended labor without first carefully selecting an improved grade of cotton and replacing defective machinery wherever necessary through out the mill. This alone has involved South Carolina's mills in the expenditure of millions of dollars within re cent years. Nothing is left undone in an effort to specialize the weaver's work, and enable him to accomplish more, and earn more. Thus there is nothing in extended labor to cause suspicion. It is a scientific, a sound, and an honest effort of the manufacturer to meet exacting competition with improved production and a better product. Nothing now is needed but time to convince the operative that the principle is sound, and its adoption inevitable. It i& but a logical anil natural step forward in the advancement of tfhe industry. 7/ic COTTON MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION <jf South Carolina VULCANIZING AND BATTERY 8HRVICE Prompt and Satisfactory Attention Given to afll orders GOODYEAR TIRES and WILLARD BATTERIES Greasing and Car Washing Call upon or when we can be of service to you. Prices reas onable. 0 MYERS SERVICE STATION Pliona 38 Cor. DcKalb A Fair NOTICE Any one within* curtains stretched Xpply to 904 Cempbell Are Price* .eaeonahle. MONRY TO LOAN On improved city reel estate at UMi per cent interest. Apply le I1ENRY SAVAGE, JR.. Attorney Crocker Building. W. O. W. MRFT1NO T.lve Oak Camp. No. 49, W. O. W? meets the last Thursday evening In each month at 8 p. m. Visittn* lat ereiarn* cordially welcomed. M. O. HUCKABEE. Clerk. C. W. BIRCHMORE, C. C. DeKALB COUNCIL NO. 88, JR. O. U. A. M. meets in regular council, the lut and 3rd Mondays of each month, at 8 o' clock. Visiting member* welcome. D. J. CREED. Councilor. L H. JONES, Rec. Sac, NOTICE TO THE MILK DEALERS WITHIN TH? CITY OF CAM DEN. SOUTH CAROLINA Notice in here/by given that all dealers in milk within the corporate limit* of the City of Camden, South Carolina, w'ill fce required on and after the lnt day of May, 1929, to apply to the Board of Health, of the City of Camden, for a permit to sell milk within the corporate limit* of the City of Camden and upon receipt of naid permit to also Apply to the City Clerk of the City of Camden for licennen for carrying on nuch hmi nenn, an required by the Ordinance of the City of Camden. By order of the Board of Health of the City of Camden air! the Cliy Council of the City of Camden. . ... C. P. DuBOSE, Mayor, C. W. BILLINGS, Chairman Board of Healtfi. / TO LET ? Some choice river land for com or hay, on shares. Apply to W. L. DePA-SS, at Zemp & DePass, Phone 10. ICE! ICE! I,ook for the ice Rifcn on Mnrket street end let me nupply you with ice. Full weight, prompt service. Your pAtronajfe will bo appreciated. L. A. HAYNF/S. TAX NOTICE I hnve received the following order from the Comptroller General's office which is approved by the governor of South Carolina. The order reads: "It is ordered that the County Treasurer's books throughout the state shall remain open for the col lection of taxes without increase in penalty until the first day of May, 1929, at which time the books shall be clos(d and taxes shall go into execution with full penalty added.'' S. W. HOG UK, Treasurer Kershaw County. THROUGH CO AC II K8 Now in Srrvioo between NKW YORK COLUMBIA JACKSONVILLE, And ST. PETERSBURG On "CAROLINA-FLORIDA Sl'ECIAl "Carolina- Florida f^pprial" Nor, 1919 and 192 SKA BOARD A I II LINE RY. Let us VULCANIZE Your Tires All Work Guaranteed SEIBERLING TIRES THE TIRES PROTECTED FOR 12 MONTHS Liberal Allowance Made on Your Old Tires Beard's Filling Station WASHING : PHONE 486 : GREASING ; When VoKKy returned from her first day at school she was asked how she enjoyed it. "I fike it all ri^ht," said IVtfKy. ''hut I didn't get any present." i "What made yo uthink you would f?et a present, dear?" "Teacher said, 'Hit therf for the present;' and I sat there all morn j injf and never ffot one." A succossful mnn is one who is quoted on subjects he doesn't know anything nbout. Vienna ? Franz I,ehar, composer of "The Merry Widow," is writing a children's musical corned yin co operation with Fran?) Molnar, play wright. The scene will !><? child ren.