The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-29
GEORGIA'S COTTON
MANUFACTURERS TO MEET
Will Discuss Labor and immigration, legislation.
Panama Canal and the Markets

Atlanta, May 2S. - Those con-
cerned in the manufacture, job
bing or consumption of cotton goods
on a large scale will be deeply inter
ested in the fifth annual meeting of
the Georgia Industrial Association,
which will be held at Warm Springs
June 8. This organization comprises a
membership of $50 Georgia cotton man
ufacturers, noted for their progressive
views, whose intelligent efforts have
done so much to upbmld the industries
and restore the commercial Importance
Of that section, and il IS expected a
number of Southern senators, members
of Congress and publfcists will be pres
ent as guests of the association, among
them being Senators Bacon and Clay
and Money. Representatives Adamson,
Livingston, Bartlett and others.
The approa ching meeting viii be es-
pecially noteworthy because of the va
riety and Importance of the topics
scheduled for discussion, which are of
great moment to the South ana of gen.
eral interest ITO manufacturers through
out the country. The principal dis
cussions will dead with the problems OF
labor and immigration and state and
national legislation affecting the same;
the effect of the Panama canal on
Southern industries, and the condition
of the Far Eastern markets as affected
by the Russo-Japanese war. OF these
the South is at present most vitality
interested in the question of labor sup
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The Labor Question.
1t is the discussion of this particular
question which will be of greatest M
terest to the cotton manufacturers of
the Eastern and New England states.
While the supply of labor in the South
is limited, it is to-day comparatively
unrestricted and with a ten or twelve
hour day the Southern mills are rapid
ly distancing their competitors who are
confined TO eight and nine hours.
AS yet the South is singularly free
from labor legislation of a restrictive
character and the Southern manufac-
turers view with grave apprehension
the possibility of a growth of the labor
unions in their section, followed, as it
inevitably would be, by a clamor for
such legislation and the limiting Of
apprentices and output. The New Eng
land manufacturer is not behind the
Southerner in recognizing the adVan-
tages of the South in this respect, and
certain MasSa chusetts manufacturers
have headed a movement for the adop-
ton of a constitutional amendment,
giving power to the United States gov
eminent to regulate, throughout the en-
tire country, the hours of TABOR to the
end that conditions shall be equalized
and all the various industries conduct
their operations on the same terms. A
resolution for such an amendment has
been introduced by Representative Low
ering, of Massachusetts,.
To Avoid Legislative Nets.
The Southern cotton manufacturers
hope to profit by the experiences of
their New England competitors, and
avoid the legislative nets in which they
are enmeshed, and therefore, in order
to learn, first hand, of the pernicious
consequences of this sort of legislation.
first upon the industry and then upon
the very labor which secured its en-
actment, the association has invited
Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport, Conn.,.
to deliver the annual address. Mr..
Davenport is the executive agent and
one of the attorneys of the American
Anti-Boycott Association, an organ
ization which was formed especially for
the purpose of resisting the encroach-
ments of organized labor in the halls