The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-11
HARMONY IS DESIRED
ATrITUDE or THE ENGirsH cor
 TON SINNERS.
Delay Acceptance sf Invttastons to Visit the seuth h order to Be Asked
 By Northern MilI Men.

Baltimore, Nov. 1e.--tSpecial. )-lThe English spinners inclined to accept the general and special invitations to them commercial and industriai bodies, to visit the South, are awaiting formal h.
 vitation from the New Englaud Cotton
 Manufacturers Association, or the
 American Cotton Manufacturers Asso- cfation, representing Southern mill
 men, under the impression that such
 invitation Is necessary to assure har-
 monious results. This attitude Is re-
 vealed in special correspondence from Manchester, England, published in this
 weeks issue of the Manufacturer's Re-. cord. which says:
 The cotton spinners of Lancashire are themselves probably the most per.
 fectly and thoroughly organized body industry anywhere. This perfection of organization was no doubt forced upon them in the beginning by the complete organization of the English cotton op- srstives; sts but, . having learned the util1 Il, matters pertaining to labor, the Lan- cashire employers were not slow to re- .alize that their association could be made equally useful affecting the in- course, but a step orf the way to a re- alization of the further advantages which might be gained by . mach wider organization which should embrace the CO&L0H SpluHtE8 OL every CuuntFy III tue world in which the industry has at tained any advanced stage of develop ment.
 of Master Cotton Spinnerg Associa- President, c. W. Macara, convened an international conference of the cotton trade which was held at Zurich Switz- erland. last May, and resulted in the appointment of an international com mittee representing ali the principal countries in which the -manufacture of cotton is carried on It was very much regretted that, owing to the shortness of the notice converting the Zurich delegate from the United States to be present, but Mir. Macara, who has been elected president of the international committee, informs me that he is in England Cotton Manufacturers Associ- ation and the Southern Cotton Manu- lecturers Association at Charlotte, N. C., to both of which he has sent. on very cordial invitations to join the new international association.
 Tt will be seen that the English spinners are firm believers in the value of international gatherings and dis cussions of matters touching the well fare of the trade, and that they desire
 nothing more than to be on terms of good fellowship with their American COIlSdkucS. Any HOSlIdnCY on Lnotr
 part to act upon the suggestion first
 made by The ManufactuFers' Record, and so heartily endorsed by public opin.
 ion throughout the South. must, there
 iore; I.1vt De refeTred tS to ] other causes .-..
 place, they are not to be sought in any
 want of appreciation of the Kindness
 and sincerity of the invitation of your
 usefulness of the proposed visit of
 your Southern mills and cotton fields
 Nr. Macara has publicly expressed the
 opinion that If sucn gathering took
 And this is the view taken by the over
 whelming majority of the trade, al- though there are one or two exceptions.
 The delay which has arisen in the
 your country Is due, therefore. to no un- willingness to go, but rather to a de-
 Sire that before going our representa- lives should be. quite sure that their
 ganizations with which they have hith- erto been in correspondence as the duly constituted representatives of
 the cotton industry in your country. " Mir. Edmond's proposal is supported by the two cotton trade associations al- ready named, and If they interest them selves in making arrangements for the proposed conference in the South and
 issue the invitations to 1t, the repre- sentative people in England and pos sibly in other European countries, will accept 1t with pleasure. and at a con- | venient date will attend such a com ference as has been suggested. It is. I am afraid, equally certain that If no such action is taken by your represen- l tative cotton trade associations, ou trade leaders here. while sincerely grateful for the invitations which they have already received frc-l individuals, l meetings and public bod.es in various parts of America. will take no official l action. That Is just how the matter stands at present.
 "Of course, those who favor the 1 scheme have not been slow to point out | that American cotton mapufacturers | would not be found supporting a move- ment which had for its object the trans l fer of mills from Lancashire to their country, to be run In competition with 1 their own, and that 1t is just as ab- 1 surd to suppose that American consurn- CTS of cotton wish to strike a blow Nt our efforts to increase the supply of | cotton. since the short crop of last sea
 son was just as disastrous for them as l for us."