The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1906-09-30
UNIQUE SCHOOL
OPENS ITS DOORS AS RESULT OF
CHILE LABOR LAW.
Columbus, Ga, ssurs in To Faducate itti
Factory Youngsters
In Thorough
fashion.

Columbus. Ca. Sept. 29.--IEmbodying
unique effort TO provide an indus
trial education for some of the tens OF
thousands of children, who under the
new anti-child labor legislation oil
Georgia must leave the factories on
January /, 1907, and go to school. the
Columbus Secondary Industrial School
will open its doors on Monday.
Child labor legislation and the great
demand for skilled labor in the South
are responsible for the founding of the
Secondary School herein the heart of
one of the most important centers OF
cotton manufacture in the South. Chill.
dren under ID years of age will not,
after January 1, 1907, be permitted to
work in any factory in Georgia. There
will be thousands of boys and girls be-
tween 10 and IA years of age forced
out of the factories and into the schools
The grammar schools of the State are
already oyercrowded. and many OF the
factory children win not find places.
In large cotton mill eenters this will
work great hardship, and the real
purpose OF the child labor bill, passed
by tie Georgia Legislature In June.
will, in nearly all the large cities of
the State, be defeated, for time at
least by the lack OF public school Ia
cilities.
Realizing that child labor legislation
was inevitable. the manufacturers OF
Columbus, led by q. Gunby Jordan.
President OF the Eagle and Phenix Cot.
ton Mills, founded the Secondary IN
dustrial School, distinct departure
in the field of education. Its purposes
are two-fold. to offer the children of
the 5000 cotton mill operatives of Co.
luf1bus an education Id trades in which
they have already had practical train.
ing. and to furnish the mills and facto.
RES nf t11fa aF<g SS4a g,tt4
ed labor.
New Idea I'm a New Town.
Located on hill overlooking CO.
lumbns, in settlement but year old.
which has grown from a wide expanse
OF vacant lots to manufacturing city
with 5000 inhabitants and two large
factories, this school. an Industrial ex-
pertinent Is thoroughly at home It
IS new schoolx enbodying new idea
located in a new town, where there are
people living who are new TO the South
When completed there viii be eight
buildings on the campus Of the school
each devoted to one OF Coiumbus's sew.
eral industrial activities The build
ings VIII be grouped in quadrangle.
with the main building in the center.
devoted entirely to the study of cotton
mill machinery. the textile building, as
the department of the school expected
10 furnish the cotton mills OF this nitv
with all classes of labor, will receive
the most attention from those back az
the institution. Here the sons Of the
present cotton mill operatives will learn
TO be skilled weavers of both plain and
colored goods OF the finest Qualities
Four years training in this building
Will give the students sufficient train
ing to command, within short time af-
ter they re-enter the mills. wages as
good as their fathers are now draw
Ing. The breaker room, the card room.
the spinning room and dye house will
all be supplied with labor from this
textile building, which will graduate
seventy or eighty boys a year, as well
as turning out large number who have
taken only part of the course. but
who cannot continue the work
With the advent of the manufacture
Of fine cotton goods in the South, there
Is great demand in ali mill cities for
experienced dyers. The Secondary In
lustrial School will endeavor to supply
the mills with all the labor of this
class needed. In addition to know
ledge of dyeing, the graduates of this
and all other textile departments will |
be well drilled in the fundamental prin-
5iples underlying the various processes
n the manufacture of cotton goods.
Settlers Being Sought.
italian and German immigrants are |
yia. The Secondary Industrial School |
will have a special department for
.eaching the children of any foreigners |
who NAV come TO Columbus to settle, |
rades which they will be able TO fol- |
ow in the industrial plants of the city. |
For this work, there will be foundry. |
blacksmith and machine shop.
There is a big demand in Columbus |
or skilled cotton mill labor. The same
conditions exist all over the State Pro- |
gress in the manufacture of fine cot
on goods in the South has been retard |,
ID because of the inability of the mills |
q secure the necessary labor for the |
AS 1t is located In one Of the largest !
lotion manufacturing cities in the
south. the school will perfect the textile !
curse as the most necessary one, At
he same time that the idea embodied
n it may be successfully worked out,
itudents will be prepared in all indus
rial courses. that every factory in Coll !
INDUS may be benefited Domestic arts. ,
including sewing. cooking and house
Seeping, will be taught to girls. Short /
land and typewritins will be taught
o both boys and girls.
Governor Joseph NJ. Terrell OF Geor-
ria. George Foster Peabody and Robert
:. Ogden of New York. were present at
he LAYING Of the corner stone OF the /
irst building OF the Secondary indus
rial School In an address made on
hat day, Governor Terrell remarked
hat far-reaching step forward had |
,een taken by Columbus. The entire
croup of buildings forming the scnool
viii be completed in about two years
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