The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-01
CHARLOTTE MEET
EXPOSES PLANS
Of MILL. BOSSES
Htaanaln Interest Stunt
means Speed Up

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Vile for their twenty-first annual
convention. This meeting not like
the past conventions was one where
the textile bosses were modelling
their forces for their onslaught
against the rising movement of the
southern textile workers under the
leadership of the National Textile
Workers Union. The editorial of
the Southern Textile Bulletin for
July IL says: The association which
ordinarily concerns itself with the
problem of machinery operation,
chose at this convention to turn
aside from technicalities to study
me people who stand at hte ma
chimes in the mill. In doing so it
very properly recognized the most
important factor in every industry
the human element
Now They See.
after twenty-one conventions
these bosses properly recognized
the most important factro in every
industry and the only reason they
properly recognized this issue was
because the textile workers had at
last started strikes and were de-
finitely launched on an organization
campaign to unionize the entire in
dustry. They recognized this issue
to do all in their power to smash
the workers movement and to
drown in blood this movement if
necessary.
"These gentlemen have turned
aside to study how to control their
labor power because the 'docile,
satisfied, low paid, American work
ers' who worked 60 to 20 hours
week in the mills; men, women and
children, have revolted and are
fighting for better conditions.
"The industrialization of the
South, the shift of the cotton spin
ming center to the Carolinas and the
intense speed-up has radicalized
greater numbers of workers. With
this the keen international competi-
ton the mill owners are endeavor-
ing to further reduce the wages of
the workers and speed them up to
keep their rate of profit up. Pres
lent Harris, at the conference,
speaking of this competition said;
IN 1915 China had 81 cotton mills
with total Of 1,008,9S6 spindles
snd 1854 looms. They have ex-
banded until in 1928 they have 129
mills with 3,638,098 spindles and
29,78S looms. Extremely low wages
with favorable conditions have al
lowed the Chinese mill owners to
show large profits
Low Wages in South.
"In the first place the low wages
are only comparable to the wages
Of the textile workers in the South,
relative to the standard Of living in
the respective countries. AS to
Chinese mill owners-in the main
the mills are owned by American,
British and Japanese capitalists.
President Harris continues: we
can. meet our part of this in two
ways: first by producing goods of
superior quality. This should be an
easy matter with our education and
highly skilled southern borne people
to man the operations. Second, we
must find ways and means of low
ering our manufacturing cost
"The only remedy the bosses at
this convention have-is to lower the
manufacturing cost and the only way
they have to do that is to speed up
the workers and reduce the wages.
zoos Gain Not Enough.
Secretary Cobb reported: For
example, your operatives are pro-
ducing 30 per cent, 100 per cent and
IN some instances as much as 200
per cent more than they produced a
few years ago. and the bosses want
to increase this speed-up greater