The Atlanta constitution., 1900-01-15
PRICE OF HOSIERY ADVANCED.
Hosiery Mill Men Held Meeting IN
Atlanta Thursday.

AT the second annual meeting of the
Southern Association of Hosiery Manu-
facturers. held in Atlanta last THURSDAY
the price Of hosiery was advanced 10 per
cent by general agreement of all twenty
two mills represented.
This advance is most important one
and is the second that has been mace
by the association IN less thah '"iee
months, the frs, advance of 10 per cent
being made at the time the association
organized in Nashville last December.
Thursdays meeting was most import
ant one in Industrial circles. representing
as il did practically the entire hosiery ana
spinning mill industry of the south, ana
the effect of the advance will involve
thousands of dollars.
Those present at the meeting WERE
j. j. Littleiohn. Of Jonesville, n. g; Dr.
Morrow, of the Nashville Hosiery mills +.
Rain. of the Standard Machine company
Philadelphia: y. O. Banks, GrantNllle HOS
iery mills. T.. IL. Northcutt, of the Marietta
knitting mills; ID. q. sunderland Oh Leliiai.
mills, Pelham, 5. G.; Charles G. Crawiey; OF
the Hanson Crawley Company hirhesN!iii'
Ga; T. c. Wilcox. of the Trion Hosiery mus,
Durham. y. g.; +. r. NieminSer' OF IN ilt-I
Nj rufacturing Company Fiat itoch' "a "
Ballard Of the Durham Hosiery MUS Dur
ham n c.; G.. Andrews. Jr., OF the hlchIloI'
Hosiery mills: S. A. McGin. of the Atlanta
Hosiery mills; s. H. Wiley, OF the salisbury ,rI,,
Hosiery mills, SALISBURY. n q D J.. IA! iC', %
of the Orian knitting mills KINGSTON y -,
j. H. Iartson. OF the Standard ManuiacturniS
Company. Athens, ~ ); D. - NtSl Ashe
Raleigh Hosiery mills. Raleigh, ~ g +. d
DuPuv Gate city Hosiery mills, Atlanta Sam
Stblcy Union Point Knitting mills. mon FolhI
Ga and T. Cuyler smith. OF Atlanta.
Tho aggregate ar,1ount of production
rs,,rasantad nv these present IS l2ooe dozen
hose per day. and the amount OF S3pItat p
invested in the various mll!s VIII '"'i
over S2.0t1.o00
Advance Was Necessary.
The reason for the advance as given by
the members Of the association y 'HT
,,ararol increase of prices of material
"a ,ahor in the past few months. In
Tho past sixty days the price of hosiery
has been advanced 20 per cent by the
southern mills. But they are still behind
the advance in yarn OF S512 per cent
made some months ago. Labor mas als9
advanced and machinery mas %pp' app :. ~
i'm value The association found ii an
solutelv necessary to Increase prices III
order To pay expenses.
Great Future for the South.
u G. Sunderland. of the Pelham mills
Pelham S c., spoke Interestingly OF the
manufacturing future of the south.
THE south has a great future before
her i'm the cotton mill business. Logically
the manufacture of cotton goods belongs
TO this section of the country ana
think il only "A question Of time before we
will be doing the bulk of the country
work In South Carolina there Is the
greatest activity along lndustrlal nhe9,
and M prcsent there are no less than
thirty large mills in course Of erection.
The only problem that now conirontS
the southern manufacturer Is the great
scarcity of labor. Many of the mills are
unable To run At their full capacity sim
ply because they cannot get work done
The importation of northern labor to meet
This contingency presents certain prop
rFafaftF
The next annual meeting Of the asso-
ciation will be held In June.