The weekly news review. (Florence, S.C.) 1922-1923, June 22, 1922, Image 5
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Farm—Labor Happenings
How To live On
' $69.50 A Month
We wonder whether the railway
labor situation is as simple as it
seems. It is announced, for ex
ample, that the Railway Labor Board
has ordered a reduction of 40 cents a
day in certain of the lower grades of
employment wherein the pay is now
$3.18 per day.
If a man gets 300 working days in
the year and is never sick and works
every one of them he will get under
the new scale $834 for his year’s
work. This is $69.60 a month. We
have examined and studied a good
many family budgets and analyzed
them in comparison with prevailing
costs, and we don’t quite see where a
man working for $69.50 a month gets
off. If he has a family the sooner
the family gets off the better.
Railway labor has been the bene
ficiary of outrageous favoritism from
the Adamson law down. So many
dragon’s teeth were sown by the
policy ten initiated that it would
seem that desperate slapdash reme
dies are now applied as a shortcut to
removing the infection.
Nevertheless we do not believe that
any man \vho has brain and muscle
enough to be employed by a railroad
in any capacity should have to spend
the leisure portion of the remaining
days of June in figuring out how he
is going to provide for his family the
means of paying the butcher, the
baker, the grocer, the milkman, the
coal man, the furniture man, for
clothes for his wife, his children and
himself, the doctor, the landlord and
perhaps the undertaker, to say noth
ing of books, papers, amusements,
holidays or recreation of any kind,
out of $69.50 a month.
We have read many articles on the
award of the Railway Labor Board,
but we have nowhere come across an
analysis of the mental, moral oi
spiritual reaction of the man con
fronted by the necessity of solving
the problem outlined in the preced-
ng paragraph.
More Cotton Mills
For the South
According to Charlotte despatches
published by the Daily News Record,
that a group of mill men and capital-
there are persistent rumors there
ists are considering plans for the
organization of an enormous cotton
mill company which proposes to
build and operate a chain of mills
having a total equipment of 1,000,000
spindles.
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Platform of
Labor Party
1. Declaration: “Labor of a hu
man being is not a commodity, or
article of commerce.”
2. No court injunctions in labor
disputes except by jury verdict after
trial.
3. State insurance for workmen’s
compensation.
4. Eight hour day for women and
minors; minimum wage.
5. Free books and medical treat
ment for school children; lunches at
cost.
6. Direct primary nomination of
state officers, judges and U. S. sena
tors.
7. Repeal of laws repressing free
dom of opinion, speech and publica
tion.
8. Direct law making by voters;
initiative, referendum, recall.
9. State and municipal ownership
of electric light, heat and power gen
erated from water power.
10. Legalizing of light wines and
beer.
11. Defeat of any proposal to com
pel labor unions to incorporate or to
imit right to strike.—^Adopted by the
New York Central Trades and Labor
Council.
The First Bale
Goes to England
America’s first bale of the 1922
•rop was sold June 2 on the floor ol
he Houston cotton exchange and
board of trade, to H. G. Garrow &
Jo., for $1,200. It had been raised
jy Mack Mize, a farmer in the lower
tio Grande valley, and was despatch
ed to Houston with the greatest
iecrecy, owing to the fact that a
number of other growers in the same
community were also trying to
achieve the honor of marketing the
first bale.
Seven acres of cotton just opening
jp were picked over in making up
.he bale. Bids on the exchange floor
started at $900, and after the sale
was made cigars and punch were
served on the floor in celebration
of the event. The bale was classed
as middling, 28-29 millimeter staple,
weight 533 pounds. It was announc
ed by the purchasers that it would
be shipped to Hughes, Audley & Co.,
Manchester, June 8, on the steamer
Steadfast.
The first bale last year rechaed
Houston on May 26, the earliest date
on record, and brought $1,300.
news remains favorable. A
is much freedom as usual;
ihow no decided trend.
ng purposes on the farms.
ible extent. With the farmer recog-
lizing the feeding value, and with
reneral sentiment friendly, the mar
ket is more apt to meet support thar
pressure, therefore, should be quick
ly responsive to unfavorable wea
for the growing crop. The gov
mand.
in corn.
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Weekly Report of
Weather Bureau
The last weekly report of the Wea
ther Bureau was considered about a
standoff by local traders. Briefly, it
represented the progress of the crop
as fair to good in Texas, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee and
the Carolines. Progress was report
ed poor or unfavorable in Alabama,
Mississippi, and Oklahoma, and mixed
in Georgia. Since then further rains
have fallen which are believed to
have caused further delays in farm
work and increased the danger of
serious damage from boll weevil.
The weekly crop review of a promi
nent local spot house says weather of
past week favorable over one-half
of belt, unfavorable other half. Warm
dry weather needed all sections.
Planting completed; chopping pro
gressing rapidly; cultivation general
ly fair to good; stands mostly good;
plant healthy, but mostly small; boll
weevil everywhere; season about two
weeks late; acreage increase about
12 per cent.
Long Staple
Markets Firm
Interest in extra staple cotton was
general and active in New England
last week, say New Bedford dis
patches, with prices holding firm
Although few mills have been badly
pressed for cotton, owing to the cur
tailment in the first part of the year,
they are becoming uneasy over their
future supply.
Owing to the higher prices on the
better grades, many mills are con
sidering the lower grades and off
colors, which consequently are stif
fening. Middling in staple lengths
has been as stiff as 31 cents.
There was a fair interest in Egyp
tians, with Saks quoted 41 to 43
cents, tariff paid,, and Uppers, which
are scarce, at 28 l-2@30 cents for
medium grades. Sea Island holds
around 43@44 cents.
It is declared the south is becom
ing more tenacious in its long staple
prices. Carolina mills are paying
much higher prices than New Eng
land.
Late Grain
Market News
The unexpectedly large movement
of old wheat to market during May,
and the attendant delivery of this
wheat upon May contracts, has not
yet lost its effect in the market, says
F. H. Babcock, of Thomas & McKin
non. He adds:
“This effect is displayed by a very
poor demand either from investors,
millers, or foreign buyers. Another
reason for the indifference of the
buyer is the continuation of goodly
promise for the new crop.
“Latest estimates of old wheat sur
plus in the hands of exporting coun
tries suggest a carry-over into the
new crop year materially smaller
than usual. From this it may be
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