The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 25, 1922, Image 8
TEXTILE INDUSTRY
MOVING SOUTH
NEW HEAD OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
THINKS NEW ENGLAND
DOOMED TO LOSE.
The New York Journal of Commerce
is quoted as follows:
"The new president of the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers,
Robert Amory, in accepting the
office at the close of today's election,
delivered an address in which he
pointed out with vigorous force the
probability that Massachusetts and
other New England states are doomed
to lose the textile industry, and that
its future field will be in the South.
It was due, he said, almost wholly
to the antagonistic legislation inspired
by labor organizations and even if
corrective measures were taken now, J
it is doubtful if the situation could j
be changed.
"The members of the National As- j
sociation of Cotton Manufacturers rep- [
1. ?Ml, Hfrn'nA 4-^x PolifAimin I
resent iiuus irum manic ^ vbiuvi??. ,
The majority of the members are'
here in New England," he said.
"Tne cotton manufacturing indus- j
try started in New England over a 1
century ago, ;jh1 has been for a long j
time its largest and most important j
source of livelihood. Throughout the '
history of the industry it has been I
highly competitive and is unlike many i
other industries, not dominated by
any one nan or group of men. Its
largest unit does not represent as
much as 5 per cent, of the whole.
"The membership of the association
represents nearly 20,000,000 spindles,
of which over half are in Massachusetts.
In 1900 there were 15,000,000
spindles in New England and 4,500,
GOO in the cotton growing states.
Today tnere afre 20,000,000 spindles in
New England and 15,000,000 in the
cotton growing states, an increase of
S4 per cent, in New England against
248 per cent, in the cotton growing
states And last month the cotton
growing states spun 65 per cent, of
the cotton against 35 per cent, for
all other states. It is time to study
this situation and act.
"Massachusetts alone contains over
half the spindles in New England, or
nearly one-third of those in the whole
United States; this against about one
half in 1900. She is rapidly losing
her position. Since 1900 there have
been installed in Massachusetts 4,000,000
new spindles against 8,500,C00
in North and South Carolina and
Virginia.
"It stop and examine the
reasons the skill and capital.
But capital will always go where
% it can get the largest return and it
? ran move easily. Skilled management
moves slowly because these men like
to live in New England, but they too,
will eventually go where there is the
largest opportunity, and they have
been going faster than is generally
realized
"In 1837 a New England mill ran
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seventy-four hours a week at an aver- 1
age wage of $3 45 per week, and a <
barrel of flour cost $6.50 then. These i
operatives were born and bred New i
Englanders. With these long hours .and
these wages opeiatives were (
drawn from the farms. 1
"The hours were reduced in Mas- i
sachusetts in 1874 to sixty, in 1892
to fifty-eight, in 1908 to fifty-six, in }
1918 to fifty-four and in February,, i
1919, durii.g the post-war boom, to (
forty-eight. Taxes have grown enor-: i
mnot all hp PAmpd in i I
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these rapidly shortening liours. Holi-11
days have been increased and usually J i
in the winter tint when most of us; t
can not use them to advantage. 1 s
"Other states have encouraged in- j i
(iustry at least bv keeping their laws \
more liberal and their taxes less. J1
j Our principal competition comes from j s
| the Piedmont district of North and J t
i South Carolina. There the climate is j e
good and bracing. The operatives are ' i
i u re-bred American stock from the c
mountains. Like our original New j .?
Englanders they have hat! hard work j t
to make a living, and appreciate op-;;,
portunity. Work is not only a nec- j c
essity but also a pleasure. These 11
people are of great native intelligence 11
and quick to learn. Mills have sprung i
up on every hand. Every little town r
wants a mill and offers free land, \
exemption from taxation and all sorts
of encouragement for the man who c
knows how to make cloth and will h
start the mill. ji
"One of the principal reasons for j
this rapid growth is the assistance v
our Massachusetts laws have given t
the Carolina mills by restricting our li
hours of work way below theirs. In li
many ways our laws hamper and re- o
strict our greatest home industry by ^
ether annoying and expensive pieces r
tf legislation, not to mention far
higher taxes. ?
"The record is clear enough, the li
cotton industry is gradually slipping t
away. In the past various factors 1
have helped us. Massachusetts has a
far more skilled help and oversight h
We had the finishing works where t
Southern goods must be shipped to o
be bleached, dyed, or printed. Now t
there is excellent siuiieo neip ana a
supervision in the South. Finishing a
works are starting up by leaps and f
bounds. t
"In the past the difference between c
sixty hours in Massachusetts and t
sity-six hours in the South was not t
the handicap that it seems, for the r
fatigue of the worker made the ex- f
tra houijs much less productive. Then c
we came to fifty-four hours and the r
South to sixty. Here we were under
a greater handicap and the industry s
moved away frdm us faster. Then a
Massachusetts goes to forty-eight {
hours, the only industrial state to 1
have such a law, and has to compete r
with fifty-five and sixty hours in the v
South. The results are appalling, g
North and South Carolina together t
liave now approximately the same r
number of spindles as Massachusetts.
In September the production of the c
Carolinas was 265,000,000 spindle s
hours, or 35.7 per cent, more than 1:
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Massachusetts; in November 58.1 per
rent. more; in December 43.4 per cent,
nore. These two states and Virginia
done erected 8,500,000 new spindles
dnce 1900 against Massachusetts' 4,>00,000.
These figures are from the
United States Department of Comnerce.
"Many well posted manufacturers
lave gravely considered and state that
t is folly to enlarge Massachusetts'
:otton mills?it is better to go where
ndustry is wanted and encouraged,
investors arc .alarmed and investment
rouses have asked that this sort of
nformatio.. be suppressed, but is is
irne to ask Massachusetts whether
;hc wants industry or wants to be
t summer resort.
"She must act and act quickly,
rhe legislature or its committee on
iocial welfare has recently refused
o consider a bill to repeal the fortylight
hour law and substitute fifty'our
hours to give Massachusetts an
qual chance with the most progressive
of her competitors. This means
hat the legislature has refused to
illow Massachusetts' mills to run the
xtra hours which would bring into
he state, to workers alone, over $12.
'00,000 annually for them to spend
n the state. What would not that
nean for local prosperity and preention
of unemployment.
"The forty-eight hour law for womn
and minors prevents any woman,
lowever much she desires, from workr.g
a minute over forty-eight hours
?er week in a factory. To limit the
working hours of men is unconstituior.al,
but the great wisdom of our
egislature has s-id that forty-eight
iours was all that women should work
n account of the public health.
Voman has the vote, but not yet the
lght of freedom of contract.
"Now, of all the jobs available for
, woman who wishes to earn her own
iving or help out the family purse,
he cotton mill is one of the best,
lie air is better than schoolrooms
nd far better than moving picture
touses. The work is light, most of
he jobs only consuming 50 per cent,
r less of the time of a skilled operaive.
Of all the various studies here
nd in England on 'fatigue in the inustry,'
none has shown that fiftyour
or even fifty-six hours for womn
in similar work to cotton mills
auses undue fatigue or breaks down
he worker. A cotton mill is one of
he few places where women earn as
ouch as men. On account of paying
or work actually done the women
ften earn more because of their
n'mhle fine-ers.
"The economic situation of Masachusetts
demands that her mills run
is many hours per week as her cometitors,
for she is now rapidly losing
er^ position of supremacy. It reaains
to inquire whether the 54-hour
reek allows her workers to become
food citizens. Our New England
raditions and our rocky soil speak
lore of hart! work and thrift and
ess of play. The 54-hour week, with
>ur present legal holidays, Sundays
ind Saturday half-holidays, would
lave us work only 31 per cent of
he time, sleep 33% per cent, of the
ime, leaving 35 2-3 of our time for
ating and playing.
"You gentlemen are the managers
if the cotton mills of New England.
I majority of you are Massachusetts
itizens. You live here and you do
lot want to move. Tell your legis
ators that if Massachusetts wishes
o keep her largest industry her laws
r-ust be as liberal as those in com;eting
states. If the situation can
?e made clear to the public and the
egislature we can then 'Have Faith
n Massachusetts' and her position in
ndustry will not diminish as now,
;ut increase."
May Meeting of Medical Society.
The Williamsburg County Medical
society met in regular monthly session
Thursday, May 11, 1922, Kelley
sanatorium, Kingstree, S. C., at 12 m.,
vith Dr. W. G. Gamble in the chair.
The following answered roll call:
Drs. W. G. Gamble, T. S. Hemingway,
S. T. Kelley, T. C Harper and B M.
Montgomery.
Minutes of the previous meeting
A-ere read and approved.
The program of this occasion consisted
of:
1. Report of a case of Subtemporal
Decompression for the relief of Intracranial
pressure, by Dr. E. T. Kelley.
2. The X-Ray as an Aid in Diagnosis,
by Dr. B. M. Montgomery.
Program announced for next meeting:
Drs. W. M. O'Bryan and W. C.
Rogers.
At the Clinic held in the afternoon.
SIX reported xur exammauun u..u
treatment.
B. M. Montgomery,
Secretary.
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Col. Jas. Keene Munnerlyn, 85,
member of an old southern family
and a Confederate veteran, died at
his home in Jacksonville, Fla., Sunday.
He was a native of South Carolina.
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