The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-02-08
IN FAVOR OF THESOUTH.
MERCANTILE COMMITTEE INVES.
TIGATING THE ADVANTAGES.
Inducements tffered to Textile Corpora
tions-Fewer Labor Troubles. Cheap
er Coal and dbtton.

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newspapers. especially in the South which
would seem to indicate that there was
about TO be a stampede.
There are grave dangers threatening
our industries" said he THE nearness
of the cotton fields, supply OF coal, equable
! climate, daylight all the year round. and
| cheaper labor. and siXty-six hours against
| hfty-eight, abundant water-power, are all
| in favor Of the South against Massachu-
| Setts. 1t has been said that there is very
little skilled labor in the SCUM IL re-
| quires more skill for adjusting and less
| Tor minding machinery than twenty years
! ago. The real point ia that there is so much
| restrictive legislation in Massachusetts.
| we cannot compete with our neighbors
We have reached the danger line. and IL
| should be stopped. We should wait until
| our neighbors and other countries catch
! up before enacting any more in the direc-
ton OF shorter hours or twenty other ha-
RAISING things like employers liability.
which is a burden"
| lie did not ask its repeal. but Massa-
| chusetts' Industries should not be dis
| criminated against by her own Legisla-
| ture
ADVANTAGES IN TIE SOUTH.
Mr.. Lowering said he believed that
southerners could not tend looms sue
| cessfully. He did not doubt but that
| there would be labor legislation imme-
| diately in the South. but there are still
| many advantages in manufacturing there
Committees from the South are contin-
| ually i'm this city.
There is one i'm Boston now
Howard Nichols. treasurer OF the
Dwight Mills, at Chicopee, said his con-
Germ had built a mill i'm the South They
were wanted there. while there was too
much restrictive legislation here. They
were obliged to spend altogether too much
time at the State House fighting legisla-
tion. His mill would prefer to remain
here, but was discouraged. His mill
was i'm Northern Alabama.
Mr.. Moriarty, Of Worcester. had Tit
with MIR. Nichols, the latter denying Mr.
Moriarity's allegations tfat last year ne
claimed that the chief advantage IN
going South was TO be near the raw ma
terial. The three items-cheaper coal. cot
ton and labor-were the principal attrac-
tions. The Dwight mill was to make
coarse goods. He had been in North
Carolina mill however, where they were
usiS yarns much finer than the average
I'm the North. The company asked per-
mission 10 so South last year. In rstead of
organizing under the Alabama laws, IN
order to save the trade marks.
MORE INTELLIGENT HANDS.
1t expected its goods would be better
made there because the machinery was
new and improved. Only the picker hands
In the South are negroes. The white
hands are all from the mountain district.
They are far more intelligent than the Sc
In northern mills. In his Chicopee mills
the help arc mostly Bohemians and
French. a far inferior class to those IN
the South. As to climate, MIR. Nichols
claimed that il was more equable i'm the
southern mill districts than up North. The
Chicopce mills could not start until ,
o'clock yesterday, because of the ice i'm
the canals.
Arthur II. Lyman, treasurer of the Lo-
well Carpet Company, said he did not
object TO labor legislation. I'm his mill
the advance in wages had in few
years been forty per cent. while the
price OF goods had gone down fifty per
cent. The ten hour time was short
enough If 4 man really desired to work.
A siX-hour day v ould close all the mills
in the State. II was fact that
thousands OF spindles are going into the
South that ought TO be put into Massa-
chusetts.
Mr.. Lyman thought the tax system Of
the State particularly well devised to
drive people out Of the State. The Of |
fers from the southern States included |
exemption from taxation for ten years.
WAGES AND COAL CHEAPER
Edward Stanwood. special agent to |
collect statistics on cotton manufactures |
for the eleventh census, said that all |
the statements ISade by the manufac- |
turers are proved by the gross figures I'm |
the statements. The cost of land and |
buildings is less i'm the South than i'm |
the North. The price of coal is lower |
and so are the wages, while the hours of |
labor are longer. The price OF cotton is |
less, while the price Of machinery Is less |
at the North. One hundred years ago |
Massachusetts offered bounties for inn |
proved machinery. and until a very few |
years ago every encouragement has been |
given TO manufacturers.
Joseph Healy. of Fall River said that |
for six years he had insisted that the |
South had the advantage over the North |
in manufacturing. This had now been |
proved.
The hearing was then adjourned until
next Wednesday morning.
southern Cotton Developments.
BALTIMORE. Feb In its weekly |
review of the industrial and railroad IN
terests OF the South. the Manufacturers
Record reports considerable increase
In the organization of new enterprises. |
ecpetlduS III tOltOu HdnuldctufllS mat
tiers. Special reports from New England
show that number of companies that |
have not been mentioned as seeking |
southern locations are looking for desir-
able sites and the interest that is being |
aroused I'm that section in southern cot
ton development is rapidly gaining. Dur
ing the week a company has been or
yauiZed to build mill IN South Carolina
to make finer grade of cotton goods
han has yet been produced In the South.
This mill will cost about 100000.
Among other enterprises reported were
another s2O0,0co mill and a $4,000 fertil- |
ger manufacturing company in South
Carolina. A company has been organized
and some OF the contracts let for the in
yestment OF about sl,O0000O in the develop |
ment OF a large electric power plant near |
Atlanta, for the development OF water
power and the transmission OF electricity
o Atlanta. \ $4,000 wooden mill will be
)uIlt in Tennessee. a $4,000 lumber CON- |
,any. $4,000 spindle cotton mill. large ad-
lition to a cotton mill, $50, 900 paint works,
$1,000 bleachery and dye works, large
-ailroad shops and shingle mill are re-
,orted from Georgia. Twenty thousand
lollar water works, $4,000 electric hight
plant. $4,000 water works. lumber plants,
furniture factory and gold mining opera
ions in North Carolina; $1,000 water
works. tannery. lumber mill and foundry
n Florida; a cotton mill doubling its
apacity, 100000 cotton compress com
any and saw mill In Texas; a $3O.000
company, -four mill and !
N abattoir In Virginia.
Cincinnati people organized a $4,000
nd al IA I'm nr- |