Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-09
IMPROVED OUTLOOK
OU|CKENS COTTON
MILL SP|NDLES
Some Mills, Closed Tempo
rariIy, Resume Full Time
Operations as Orders for
Cloth Show Increase

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Generally improving conditions in
the textile industry are indicated in
dispatches received by The Journal
from many of the cotton mill centers
of the south. Several mill presidents
express themselves as more optimis-
tic than in some weeks past, and all
express the conviction that condi-
tions affecting the industry will con-
tinue to assume a more favorable as
pect.
Some few mills which had shut
down temporarily either have resum-
ed OPERATIONS or are preparing to do
so in the near future. For example,
a Greenwood, S. c.. mill that had
closed for two weeks, is now run
ming full time. Orders for cloth
are picking up, it is said, and some
mill men express the opinion that big
buyers of cloth have about reacht
the conclusion that the cotton mar
ket has hit rock bottom and hence
forth may be expected to rise. This
view is expected to stimulate orders
for the products of southern mills.
Although there have been slight
reductions in wages at some mills.
there are no indications of a general
move in this direction, 1t is said.
Some of the more recent dispatches
received by The Journal follow:
FIVE GREENWOOD MILLS
NOW RUNNING FULL TIME
q GREENWOOD. S. c.. Dec. 1.-THE
five cotton mills in Greenwood coun-
ty are now operating on full time
after having curtaiIed production
several weeks. With one exception
the plants have" day and night shifts,
President j. c. Self. of the Green
wood Cotton Mills, and also vice
president and chairman of the board
of directors of the Bank of Green
wood, expressed himself as very OBJ
timistic as to business conditions.
He feels that the crisis has been
passed, and while not looking for a
boom soon. he is of the opinion that
the conditions will continue to i'm
prove and that business will be
steady and normal.
He feels very hopeful of the pres
ent and the future. His mills, which
had cut production, are now running
on full time, night and day, having
resumed full operation Monday
morning.
j. F. Abney, president Of the Gren-
del Mills, of this city. and the Nine
ty-six Cotton Mills, of Ninety Six,
states that his mills were run on
part time only two weeks, and that
they are now running full time. He
is in the best of spirits and expects
steady and continued Improvement.
Pamela Mills, of which Senator S.
S. McGhee is president, are running
full time during the day, but are not
being operated at night, as they are
not run at night in normal times.
He reports the dry goods situation
greatly improved and that there
seems to be revival Of business in
all lines. He says there has been a
great deal more talk Of curtailment
in the Piedmont section than there
has actually been. He predicts that
in thirty days the wheels can not
turn fast enough to supply the de-
mand.
Marvin S. Chipley, cotton mer-
chant, thinks cotton has reached a
level where no further unfavorable
conditions will influence the market
price. In every similar period in
the past recovery from a price below
the cost of production has occurred
promptly when Rysteria has sub
sided and courage and foresight on
the part Of every southern interest
reasserts itself, he says. Higher AMI
better prices for all farm products
are assured.
ALL SPARTANBURG COUNTY'S
100000 SPINDLES RUNNING
sPARTANBURG. S. c., Dec. T.
The textile situation in Spartanburg
county. both as regards operation
and sale of product. is brighter now
than it has been for several weeks
past. There is not an idle spindle
among the nearly 100000 in Spar
tanburg county. A general cut of
10 per cent in wages was made
month ago, but there has been no
indication Of any additional wage
curtailment. Mill men in this sec
ton are reporting better sales of
cloth than in some time, and a more
optimistic sentiment is being ex-
pressed by many.
The textile industry in Spartan
burg is on firmer basis than it Is
in other centers Of the same indus
try in the south, by virtue Of the
fact that the mills of the county are
older corporations with well-estab-
lished business, which has not felt
the recent depression as acutely as
the mills in other sections.
In several of the counties imme-
diately adjoining Spartanburg, cotton
mills are operating only four days
a week, with wages reduced as much
as 25 per cent. Some mills have
suspended entirely. but these are
few in number. Several of those
who have suspended are reported
making preparations to resume oper-
alton.
CONDITIONS IMPROVING,
SAYS KNOXVILLE MAN
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. Con
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