The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-08-17
hi STATE
Report of Special Committee on Manu-
featuring Unanimously Adopted by
= Rising Vote.

Your Committee on Manufacturing
begs leave to report as follows:
WHEREAS, The per capita cost Of
shoes used in the United States is, as
per census reports, 1888 per year,
which would make the proportion for
North Carolina's /. 200, 600 population
aggregate more than Sc. 600. 900 per
year, an amount larger than the total
actual cash circulating medium in the
State; and,
WHEREAS, These figures cover only
the factory price Of the product, which
is not more than so per cent. of the
actual cost of the shoes to our consum,
ers; aud,
WHEREAS, The loss of circulating
medium from our State necessary to
pay these heavy shoe bill tends to i'm
poverish our State, while it enriches
others; and,
WHEREAS, The object in our band
ing ourselves together in our beloved
order, is that we may render mutual
assistance to one another, and by com.
bining our energies be a power for good
to our commonwealth; and,
WHEREAS, We find we have already
in our possession fully equipped and
paid for, so far as we are able to learn,
q magnificent Shoe Factory, standing
idle and rusting out, with, perhaps,
50, 800 worth of leather, which can be
Immediately converted into shoes; and,
WHEREAS, We believe, from the evi
dences everywhere manifest, that
when the factory starts it will not be
able to supply the demands that will
be made upon it they will be so great,
and that the membership of our Order
will double in six months. Tner efore,
we recommend
/. That your Executive Committee
be instructed to proceed at the earliest
possible date, to secure the services
Of a suitable person to superintend the
Shoe Fac DRY, and that said Superin
tendent be empowered to employ such
laborers to work under his directions
as he, in his judment may need, with
the approval of the Executive Com
mittee, and at such scale of wages and
prices as the Executive Committee may
adopt.
2. That the State Business Agent
shall open a regular account in his
ledger with the Shoe Factory" and
keep a strict account of all receipts
and disbursements on account of the
Factory, so itemjzing that an accu-
rate account of the expenditures and
receips on each of the following sub
accounts will be separately kept, to,
wit: Materials" Labor, " Fuel and
Lights" improvements" Repairs
and "Other Expenses"
8. Let the State Business Agent do
all the buying and selling for the Shoe
Factory, taking charge of the output
as fast as finished, selling sameas soon
as possible, and placing net proceeds
of such sales to the credit of Shoe Fac
tory.
4 Let the accounts for all expendi-
lures an account of labor, material, inn
provements, repairs, fuel or any other
account first be approved by the Super
intendent before being paid by the
State Business Agent and properly
fled, as vouchers, by the State Bust.
ness Agent.
5. Let no improvements, purchase
or new machinery, mol heavy repairs
be made without the approval, in writ
ing, Of the Executive Committee.
s Let it be the duty of the Superin-
tendent OF the Factory to keep an owe
sight over the operatives under him,
and keep a watch upon the machinery
and see that every person and every
machine shall perform as nearly as
possible its whole duty. Let it be his
duty also to keep an oversight of the
material or stock, and always be sure
to make requisition upon the Business
Agent for such leather, findings and
other necessary articles as may be re-
quired, in ample time, to avoid run.
ming short.
z. Let the Executive Committee take
observations, and make Investigations
from time to time, and when, in their
judgment, they become convinced that
the Shoe Factory will be a successful,
self sustaining enterprise, or can be
made so, or made more so by starting
the Tannery, then let the Executive
Committee secure the services of prac-
teal tanner to take charge of and en-