Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-02-07
BY RICHARD sPILLANE

DA hACL1AIGD SE 1AlltANG
Frank Morrison, labor leader,
says: eve are going to have
bread lines Inv every industrial
cent II by May l."
It there were basis for such a
dive prediction the outlook would
be distressing. But is it true?
Let us see what the facts are
and what the views are of men as
wolf qualified, if not better quail
fed thar Mr.. Morrison, to read
tho sigps of the times.
1t is less than 80 days to- the
first of May. Two of the great
centers Of industry in America
ara New York and Philadelphia
If there was a surplus of labor or.
hard times were impending, sure
ly some evidence of it would be
manifest there. N.
Both cities have known bread
lines. There are no bread lines
todaye Both cities have known
street beggars of many kinds and
characters. Nothing is so rare
now as the street beggar.
The principal newspapers have
columns. and columns of male
help waured' ads.
Employers Advertise
New York employers, despair
ing of getting all the workers
they require, have advertised in
papers in other cities.
Philadelphia is. the biggest CEN
ter of bodybuilding in the world
today. On the day this article
was written the U. S. employ
ment Office was advertising in the
Philadelphia newspapers for not
only trained workers, but for un-
trained men to learn the ship
building trades and the Merchant
Shinbuilding corporation was adj
vertisinG for shipftters, linermen,
wooG calkers, riveters and cop
persmiths. ...>l
From st. Louis comes the in
formation that the shortage of la
Dor is the outstanding problem in
the railroad tie industry. The
business was paralyZed by the
war. Now every railroad needs
new tieg by the tens of thousands
and hundreds of thousands. They
must have them. The demand is
so great that j. w. Fristoe de-
clares zoo. 900 men could be used
in various lumber camps for tie
making,
Every textile mill in America
has all the orders it can fill.
Fuller Galloway, the largest cot
ton mill man of the south, is run
ming all his mills "a hours day
and will keep them running to
thei1 fullest capacity for months
to come.
Supply Below Normal
Never in half a century was
there such a shortage of clothing
as there is today. America is the
only na;ion fairly we'll supplied,
and the American supply is far
below normal. -
Johns. Lawrence of the great
firm of Lawrence & Co., of Boston,
is auth Jr.ty for the statement that
from the wardrobes of Americans
$4,000, 000 garments of gross
weight of 100000 pounds have
been gifts to the stricken people
of Belgium. At low estimate he
puts the value of these goods at
50 pound, or a total clothing
value of $40,00O,000.
Mr.. Lawrence has been director
of the clothing division of the
commission for relief in Belgium.
He asks, if Belgium is in such
need of clothing what must be the
conditions in the rest Of Europe?
He answers by saying:
Before the war continental
exports of textiles were
considerably larger than their i'm
ports. Now she must import tex
tiles for 125.000,000 destitute
people, and the extent of her i'm
ports for the next year will be her
ability TO pay and the worlds
ability to ship"
The great textile mill centers OF
France Belgium, Russia and Po-
land arc wrecked. Germany is
without cotton or wool. England's
mills viii not be transformed
from war work to peace work for
months tn come. America and
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