The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-08
NEED FOR LABOR
IN THE SOUTH.
The Manufacturers Record Says
the Demand Is Wide
spread.
ARE A PLENTY OF L0AFERs
But What Is Needed Are Work
ers in Every Line Of
Endeavor.
ARE A PLENTY OF L0AFERs
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Special to The Times-Dlspatch.)

Z. BALTIMORE, October 7-Coniment.
Ing upon slA lements made at d.nerent
POINTS In tht South. illustrating the vide
Workers s Hanging se from aKiled ne ss nIcs
to farm Ia Tor and household servants, the
MANUFACTURERS Record says this week:
"A glance at the facts reveals the sltu-
South ls to- realize its immense. potentali-
ties. For Instance, at Norfolk, as at
many another points, there Is activity in
pered By the lack Of Skilled ski a and a unskied
Workmen in all the trades. one contrac-
tor being able to find only nifty labore;a
to do tho work OF one hundred. In the
used Immediately, but they are not avail
anlc. a cannery Ut Charleston needing
4N ghuckers can obtain put 10. N \,
farm hands In mississippi are !, p a. IN
six years :. ago. but sufficient number
cannot be ted at any price. Cotton mills
and cotton congresses at Augusta are
Jobs cannot carry out their contracts.
and the completion Of a large warehouse
there viii BE- delayed unless workrneen
promptly brought in in etse is notcd sa
vannah that a factory has been vqlnly
calling for 900 girls for long time.
Lumber establishments in east Caroline
ere bringing in from the North foreign-
horn help, and arrangements have been
made to settle 1000 Italians and Next
lana. From Virginia to Texas the cry
for competent household service extends.
ARE MANY LOAF5Rs.
The pressing need Is not due entirely
persons able e work In many cities
about the streets content to be supported
OF their females. Many Of the males
who work ut all disappear from their
Jobs as sooil as they have earned enough
AYE On IN ose seryc ana any Of the
reliable. Fol such the vagrancy laws
must be strictly and persistently en-
forced Even with that, though there
would stu be room for at least half a
million men and women to do the imme-
date work or the South. to say nothing
OF that which is to be done hereafter.
In the, season Of 19O4-5 Southern cot
ton mills consumed 2172,s9? bales Of cot
sufficient to consume 100000 or 10000 more
bales. Failure to make the most Of the
investment IN machinery was based upon
inability 10 obtain full quota OF oper-.
atives. Sonlt iron furnaces are falling
behind Their capacity to the extent Of
$500 or 3UG tons month. not because
there Is no urgent market, hut because
they cannot find enough common daily
ands of tons on their yards, already
promised for delivery. Railroad contract
ors are riv.4lling one another In their
search for men who WELD the pick and
shovel. Cotton fields are white to the
harvest, nut the laborers are few. It
will not do merely to so out into the
highways and hedges OF the South, the
hyways Of the towns and compel them
to come IN. whether or not they DO COM
petent. TheIe is a limit to the shifting
from town to country, from farm to
factory. consequent upon the economic
revolution which has been under way for
years in the South. That section has the
material Ii vast quantities, which must
pie and Of the people OF the whole
country 1t has not enough workers of
Its own for the full development Of that
material. II must look outside itself
for additional workers"
DLFOSITS INCREASE.
Rejecting the industrial and agrlcutur-
Al activity OK the South are the figures
published IN this weeks Manufacturers
Record showing that since June 3d. 1903.
deposits In national banks In the South
erl States lave increased from S367, 933. 1873
20 s44s,32S.SS5. or by $50, 1885, SOP, equal 10
?1.S per cent. The increases BY States
}2,73s,css; District of Columbia,
81. 4Go lGD; Florida, S4,401.7O5: Georgia, S4,-
80 9f7; Kentucky. $5,730,5 96; Louisiana,
s5,2l7,7oi;5 Maryland, ss,1T, 1926: Mississippi
$685., $40; North Carolina. s3.7s5,513: South
Carolina, s2,sgs.sS; Tennessee, s5.oss.4es;
West Virginia. $1.ses,59s. .2.3.
9 The, largest percentage Of gain these
States Is, Shown BY Florida, 45.4, though
Arkansas very nearly equaled this. The
smallest percentage ofaincrease, 6.s was
IN the District Of Columbia. 4
During the past three months Southern
cotton mills, either new or enlarging
have announced plans Involving 5000 new
spindles and 602 new LOOMS n total In
crease since the first of January OF ,3O4, O4O
enindles and 6,2s6 looms. acknowledgements
during the past three months represent
an Investment of about S1,Ns0,0oO. Includ-
ed In the developments of the past sum-
mer have been announcements. Ola num-
Der of new companies and Eofh Traditions
to old Mills, In which details as to the
number 81 spindles and looms havesnot
been given. Had these details been
available lac third quarter OF the year
would haW. made a much better showing.
Reports OF this character comprised a
$50 900 mill at2C Columbia, S. C, for manu-
featuring ol-mill press cloth from camers
hair and mohair:- three new cot ton mill
comma ME s.swtth an aggre gate carital OF
e4l0, 900; a $cCCo00 cotton rope company at
S. C.;Gand additions TO the
chain of cotton mills, operated a Spray,
N c.
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