The daily worker., 1928-07-18
BIG BUSINESS MOVES
SOUTH CHEAP LABOR
(Rv Federated Pressl.

war growth, is on the eve of its
greatest expansion, according to
survey just completed by Case
Pomeroy & Co. This firm lists
$170,000,000 to be spent in estab-
fishing new manufacturing plants
along the Southern Railway. This
does not include millions appropri-
ated for factories and mills along
the Atlantic Coast Line, Louisville
& Nashville, Illinois Central and a
score of smaller lines.
Nor does it include enthusiastic
estimates on tremendous expansion
said to be just ahead for Texas. In
the Lone Star State, itself an en-
pire, industria1ists are predicting
that cotton mills within the next de-
cade or two will rival Carolina's and
far surpass New England.
Reason: Low Wages.
No less an authority than M. D. C.
Crawford, of Fairchild Publications:
standard textile trade service, lends
a willing ear to boasts that Texas
through low wages of poor whites
Negroes and immigrant Mexicans,
and proximity to the best cotton
fields, will be the center of the
American textile industry.
Cardinals future is seen to lie in
finer grades of cotton goods while
coarse goods will be made in Texas
Already northern bankers and tex
tile interests are complaining of the
competition for labor in the larger
Carolina communities. AS for New
England, Crawford remarks that sit
is said by many textile men that
New England would make the finest
summer resort in America"
In these words is the threat of
annihilation for jobs of at least
100000 textile workers in New Eng
lands cotton mills.
Intense Activity.
From Virginia on the north, says
the Case, Pomeroy report, stretch
ing along the western fringe of
North Carolina and on into more
southerly states, notably Georgia
and Alabama, and swinging north
ward into Tennessee, the plants pro-
jected by industries, either as ex-
tensions to present sites or as new
locations, show an unparalleled era
of construction activities.
Largest of all the projects is the
plant of the Allied Chemical & Dye
Corp. at Hopewell, Va, on which
an estimated expenditure of $780,,
100000 will be made. The Dupont
Rayon Co. plans the erection of .
S10,000,000 plant in Richmond and
another in Tennessee, while further
to the west, at Covington, Va, the
rayon industry is being further ex
panded by the contemplated location
of another $10,000,000 project of the
Industrial Rayon Corp.
Also Morgan Firm.
At Elizabethton, in the northern
corner of Tennessee, the American
Glanzstoff Corp. is listed as plan
ming a $7,000,000 plant. This little
mountain town has also been select
ed as the site of the $5,000000 plan
of the American Bemberg Corp
Both are rayon (artificial silk
firms.
The Dupont Co.'S second rayon
plant is to be located at Old Hick-
ory, Tenn, few miles north of
Nashville, where a S5,000,000 plant
is to be thrown up. The Troy Cotton
& Woolen Mfg. Co. is to spend $5,-
100000 at Waycross, Ga, where the
raw supply may be grown alongside
the mills. A like expenditure is to
be made by the American Chatillon
Co. in Rome, Ga.
The Viscose Corp, in Roanoke
Va; Bemis Bros. Bag Co. in Tai
ladega, Ala; Alabama Mills Co. in |
10 towns in that state; Chevrolet |
Motor Co. which will erect a ST.
250,000 factory in Atlanta; Pull
mans S1,500,000 shops in the same
city; and the various plants of the
raft-Phenix Cheese Co. are among
other projects.
Great Increases.
Additions to their present mills
S3,000,00O in each case, are
by the Lincoln Mills
in Huntsville, Ala. and the Gulf
States Steel Co. in Birmingham. The
five southern states listed are estim-
ated to have manufacturing estab-
lishments valued at S869,000,000
The $3.50, 100000 expansion noted by
Case, Pomeroy represents 20 per
,ent addition.
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