The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-19
SOUTH FLAUNTS
Shane OF Child
SLAVES AT N. Y.
Boast of "Open Shop"
and Lou Wages
BIZ EsrHER LOWELL,

NEW YORK, May 17.-FP)-That
foreign city New York is having a re-
markable demonstration Of the pure
Anglo-Saxon lru klux khan spirit Of the
Industrial south in the Southern Elk
position held in Grand Central Palace.
In exhibit after exhibit the manufac-
turers, railroad, real estate and other
boosters of the south brag about the
nearly 100 per cent American popula-
ton, docile labor, lack of labor laws,
and low wages.
In the Georgia Railway g Power
Co.'S booklet, for instance, there is the
brazen brag that Georgia laws per-
NIT go hours work per week in cot
ton mills. Women as we'll as men,
and youths of 16 or over, may work at
night" And later: lone authority
states that within his recollection no
proposed measure, aimed against man
ufacture, ever has been given even
serious consideration in the state
referring to labor laws.
South Pays Low Wages.
The low wages paid are advertised
to induce northern capitalists south
ward: "Machinists, S2460: electri-
clans, s35; engineers, SIS; lremen,
$40; spinners, s12.1s; boarders, $3.50;
oarders, $3.50; examiners, $3.50;
dyers, s1225; finishers, $9.75; sewers,
$3.50; knttters, 1880; loopers, SIS;
laborers, SO" average weekly.
Lowest wages in cotton mills are
quoted from the Georgia commerce
and labor department and show that
males under IAN get SO weekly; from
141z to 16, SO to Sc; over 16, SIS to $40.
Females under IAN, SO; 141a to 16, 81
to s14; over 16, S. to $40. The rail-
road also advertises that in north
Georgia the mill labor comes from the
Blue Ridge mountains where the peo-
pie were hardened to much rougher
work" and as a consequence have re-
garded the life of an operative as one
Of comparative ease at an interesting
task"
Boasts Of DoeIle Slaves.
Alabama in a state booklet boasts of
its native born labor of predominant
ly Anglo-Saxon descent Negro labor
is used in the iron and steel industry,
the Alabama booklet states, and as
characterized by its tractibility and is
rarely susceptible to those disturbing
influences common in sections where
the foreign element dominates the in
dustrial field"
Governor Thomas G. Mcleod of
South Carolina on his states day at
the exposition took pains to tell the
world about the "ruddy glow" in the
faces Of min operatives children and
what fine living conditions they have
and how happy they are instead Of
living in novels and working in the
mills long hours. Greenville, S. c.,
has an extensive exhibit to prove that
It is the textile center of the SOUTH"
but conditions OF labor in the city are
not advertised at all! There are 1872
of South Cardinals 1874 cotton mills
in the vicinity of Greenville and many
of the mills has displays Of their prod
ucts but no pictures Of the mill viii
lagos.
The industrial bureau of the Allan
"a, Ca, chamber of commerce posts
a sign In its booth: Atlanta is an
open shop town" Birmingham brags
that its steel mills increased their.
work during the 1919 steel strike. The
Manufacturers Record, a Baltimore,
Md. organization of reactionary pub
fishers, announces at the entrance to
the exposition that it Stands for rigid
enforcement of the law as the only
salvation Of the nation from social
istic, Bolshevistic, anarchistic spirit"
rising in this country and filing Eu-
rope! II the ku klux khan itself had
booth at the exposition. no one could
be surprised, so well have southern
capitalists taken up its spirit for their
profit
In Bad Company.
u There is one Negro exhibit, how
ever, that of DR.. George w. Carver of
Tuskegee who has on display his dis
coveries Of paint from Macon county