Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-05-12
Mills COMING SOUTH
Manufacturing Head Says Future OF
This SeciI0n, IS Bright. .
new ENGLAND, INDUSTRY PERlLOUs

Sectl0n =
sc,ro,inss Even Nov Have as Many
so;ndlss a. Ma ssas saausettt.S :, $'es.
of cbsinterest to4Southerns people
oenaralIv and & sgespecially.S those, con-
nactad with the textils industry, is the
!. fo,lowii,g ne 'prubiished In recent issue
az tbsI journal iof Commerce, dated
from Boston on April ,2s::i {iSn,- "
The new president of the National
Association of Cotton Manufacturers,
Robert Afrnory. in accepting. the office
: Al the close l,ss tf Of a. recent election, de-
liyered an - address in ;whichane pointed
,.out with, ,visorous force the probabili-
! ~ tysf Ma sachusettff ana other, New
Erk,ahd states are doomed 10 aose the
texti,e5 industry. and that its future
Nee,d will be in the so,ith. =, 1t was due,
hsts4ia almost wholly. to, the antago-
piistIc legislation inspired by labor, or
gan,sat,ons 2 and I. even n. corrective
,oss.;..es were taken now, it is doubt
fnI' Il the situation could be changed. :
.rhe members OF the National AS
soeiation OF = Cotton Manufacturers
renrasent mills from Maine to Cali
forrnia. The ma jority of the members
arc here In New england" he said.
2.H,he cotton manufacturing industry
started In New England over q century
ago and has been for long slime hts
largest and most. Important source OF
nyeiihood. Throughout its history. the
inaustry has .,bsen nightly competitive
and lis unlike mary other i;idpstries,
not dominatea by any one ! man or
group Of men, IT'S largest unit does
not represent as macE as S percent.
of the whole. ~ W {sf ,6Sa
1.-The Jnembershiprof the associalioh
represents saearly 2O,oO0,OOo spindles,
of which over Half are In Massachu-
sets. In 1900 there were 15.ooe,Ooe
spindles in New England and 4'sOo'ooo
in the cotton growing states. To-Day
there are 20 o,D9p, 900 ispindies in New
England and t5.ooo,ooe in the. cotton
growing states, an increase q "a per
ecntinJ New England against 24s per
cent: in the seotton growinsf states.
And last month the COTTON growihs !.
states spun 65sper cent. OF the cottor coy
against So ;pers cent ZOE an iotner s'A.es
Il is time TO STUDY thas situ''ifioqh iuO'f anu '''I
act vssSs ii
'.Massac ctllisetts alohet contains. 5. over
half the spindles In New England, or
nearly, onesthstd sof those lin the whole
United States; this aga in9t m aapont I'Lt. one
half in l1se0Sn Sn She issrapidly. losing her
position. Since 1900 there have been
Installed .in Massachusetts s,eeo'ooo
new spfndles asaisst S.5Oa 900 spindles
in North, and South Gar'olina and ipr- ll''
gipia, i,T 7s'a..,r 'et".i''i' =;
:, fIb Isl we'll to stop and examine the
reasons. We have the skill and the
capital. But capital will always go
wherer.it cam apt sthes largesS return
and It can move, easily skiiaed man
agernent moves Esfn9re Slowly because
'lese men like 10 lfve'in New England
but they too, will. eventually 40 where
there is'the largest opportunity, ana
they. have been going faster than is
generally realized.
MIN 1897 q New England mill ran
seventy -four hours week ar an av-
erage wage of s3.45 per week and
barrel of -four cost $6,5e thsh. THESE
operatives were born g and bfed !. New
Engianders. With these 1928 hours
and these'wages operatives We're drawn
from the farms, ~ y
THE hours were reduced 70 MasSaT
chusetts In 1874 to sixty. I'M 1897 10
fifty-eight, and in 1908 to hry7six' IN
1918 to. fifty -four and IN lfeoruarv'
: 1919 to: forty-eisht' curing She pos'-
war boom. Taxes have grown 'enor-
nously and must all be earned an
these rapidly shortening honrs! non
days have been increased ahe usuahS
in the winter time when .mest OF US
cannot use them to adyantags'
Other states have, encouraged IN
dustry at least by Keeping thelr laws
more liberal and their taxes iessr our
principal competitton comes drem the
Piedmont distffct p9 For'n. fhu S0u'',
Carolina There the climate is goou