Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-06
NEW ENGLAND MILL
INTERESTS START
EXODUS TO SOUTH
Better Conditions and In
.ducements From Southern
Communities Are Held Re-
sponSibIe for Movement

BOSTON, Jan. 5.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press.1-A movement of New
England cotton mill interests to
southern states is under way. AT
present it is confined TO an extension
! of the branches in the south of
mills that have their principal plants
ir. this section, but there are lndl-
cations that it may add new manu-
featuring units to southern centers,
financed by New Englanders.
=. Advantages in hours of work al
.alowed by law in wage scales, ana
tax rates and exemptions are given
a., the three principal causes con-
,tributing to the movement which
has manifested itself recently in sew
eral ways.
Two Announce Moves
Actual announcement of the trans
fer of part of their plants or equip
ment has been made by the Apple
ton Mills of Lowell, and the Jenckes
Spinning company of Pawtucket, II.
II. AT least one other large textile
corporation in this state has voted to
make no more capital expenditures
in Massachusetts. This action, &C
cording to Secretary H. c. MeserVe,
Eof the national association of cotton
manufacturers, carried the inference
sthat such capital expenditures would
be made in the corporations south
FERN mills.
From southern centers have come
"advfces that several New Englan1
delegations recently have visited tEe
.Earolinas and Georgia, looking over
the ground for location of new mills.
The situation is summarized in d
Statement by Robert Amory, of this
city, president of the National AS
hscciation of Cotton Manufacturers
as follows:
3 New England has lost sight OF
the development that the cotton
mills brought her, but some day.
before it is too late, it is to be hoped
she will appreciate how necessary
they are to her economic develop
.nnent. The south still appreciates
its cotton mills and wants more.
Welcomed in South
go into some small town on the
edge of the mountains. where there
is no industrial plant, and tell the
first man you meet that you know
how to run a cotton mill and are
thinking of going to that town. 1ou
will be welcomed with opened arms
by every one, and will receive every
possible offer of assistance and good
will The people of that town know
what cotton mills have done for 9TH
err towns, and you will have HARD
work not to settle down there ana
establish a mill
Secretary Meserve said the legal
limitation of work to As hours a
week in Massachusetts, mills was a
handicap especially serious. He took
note of movements to extend this
limitation to New Hampshire and
Rhode Island, where 54-hour sched-
uIes and wage reductions precip-
itated long strikes a year ago, SCI
tied for the most part by restora
ton of wages and continuance of the
54-hour week.
He said that the higher wages
called for in New England also gave
a distinct advantage to other CEN
ters. There was growing feeling,
he added, that the taxes paid by cot
ton mills were out of proportion to
those levied on other industries.
He added that with an opportunity
for growth afforded by fair manu-
featuring conditions, New England
cotton executives will continue to
hold their place in the markets Of
the world