Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-02
Growers and ManDfactur-
efS Are in Conference
Hoping to Make Plans to Bet
ter Condition Of Both.
The South Realizes Its Power and Freely
Expresses lis Opinion.

Washington, May 1.-The first inter-
national conference of cotton growers
anu cotton manufacturers b. gan 4 two
days session III this city today. Rep
resented at the conference were the
following. The American Manufac-
turcrS Association. The National Assoc
citation of Manufacturers, the United
states Census Bureau. tie Department
Of Agriculture. the southern Cotton
Association til" National Association
Of Cotton Manufacturers tf"rmr!ly- the
New England cotton Manufacturers
ASNocidtion,) the New York :tnI New
Orleans Cotton tIXr hungcS. the Intrrna-
t!onu Federation Of Master cotton
Spinu"rS and Manufacturers Assoc, ia
ton, a".i tho Farmers Educational ana
Cooperative Union.
permanent organization was If
fcct"d. the following officers being
clt ctel: President. james (. MacCoil,
president Of the Nationa! Association
Of Cotton Manufacturers; FIRST vice
president. Harvey Jordan, president of
the Southern Cotton ASsoci;ttinn; Sec
ond vice president, Z. NJ. Miller Jr.,
president Of TIL" American MHnufac-
tur'rs Association; third vic" prcSi-
drnt, II. W. Mc.\liSt"r. Of the lmtcrn&-
ti"nal t'cdcratinn; secretaries, Richard
Chrntham, c. J. II. Woodbury. and {.
Il. Bryant.
President McColl expressed the
view that the meeting would throw
much light on the problems that con-
front the cotton industry in this coul-
try.
lie declared that speculation had he
com" injurious to the legitimate IN
dustrics of cotton growing ANA manu-
featuring and ne hoped the conference"
would suggest = way of at least con-
trolling speculation so that it might be
the least hurtful.
During the discussion which follow
cd on the subject Of cotton Troduc-
ton" there was unanimity of opinion
among the growers that there were no
improved methods for the cultivation
OF cotton.
Representative Livingstone of Gcur-
cia, took exception to the remarks or
Mr. MacColl ana said that they We're
unfair to the growers IF the South. II"
declared that while the products Of
cotton had improved some. labor was
getting NOR" scarce each year. M
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had an asSociation that was powerful
enough to fix tn" price of cotton and
maintain ii he would guarantee that
| the manufacturers of the world would
adius' the Price nr their goods to that
of the raw natrri:l
Mr. IIyckman nf the American Manu-
fdctures' Association said that tn" uIoS-