The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-11-08


has planned plant western North Carolina and eastern
Eight dams to be constructed North Carolina and
The hydro-electr plants in number
this section and the largest and latest the formation of
Nantaha Power and Light Company The trust
dominant political factor in this part of the South
transformed this the
industrial section with large profits from wpaid work.
The furniture industry Carolina output
of 5oOoooo The supply of lumber from the forest in this
ton plentiful water cheap labor power cheap and all
lays profits North Carolina ranks fifth
in the production of furniture
AGRICULTURE.
Carolina, of the South Over
million bales of cotton distributed through this city each
This where the big boys buy the
cotton from the small cotton buyers The small town buyers first
whom The cotton
of the farmers the Piedmont section 900 annu
allow him to exist until the next
Tobacco the second largest crop the yearly beng
where the largest tobacco manufacturing in the world
located the makers of Camel cigarettes The tobacco workers
aborng class the factories the majority Negro workers and
the eece the cotton The tobacco trusts
and rich farmers reap profits.
The forest products furniture wood pulp for etc. factories
nearby 2oOoooo lands with
and and half billion board feet of lumber produced annually
rockies located
Wit, The use of new machinery 5ss and nd S
the Piedmont into new industrial section of the South
POPULATION
Over seventy per the two million
still engaged agriculture This of the main talking
points Of the rising capitalist group They
cheap power
hill people usually brought into towns the mill bans
promised all the wonders of modern civilization The hill
pie these mill cenrs with the illusions the early Euro
had when they brought to this country by the land cont
settlers who here ht promise of the land companies found
families hill people brought mill
centers find low long hours paga starvation dirty company
the mills differ little from the Of the
past"
Negroes about as of the population the Pied
the statistics and tabuaton the Negro population
the population American born The majority these million
people workers and farmers the most exploited section the
capitalists and their henchmen mainly the result of the
ndum that has replaced the rich landlord the dominant
factor The mill bans lumber kings power trust tobacco kings etc.
have replaced the landowners in political supremacy
bourgeosie divided the labor capital
and the class struggle All those who have been hard hit who
with the struggle Of the workers The chain store has made big nads
this section This foowup of the industrial with wholesale
retail chain distributions another thing that cements the Piedmont
% Wall Street hegemony.
The liberal element weak and tmd end few in number The
great oppression religious
number of liberal thinking people their thoughts
magazine this part and those who believe evolution v
tonists" of the worst kind.
The Piedmont section has per of the souh pndles
and looms The mills in this section consume over pounds
In the cotton the main production but
finishing plants, beachers, silk and knitting mills.
One hundred seventeen Of the 2 hosiery mills the country are
- it virginia. hsIh Carolina in South Carolina
CASTOR County c. is the cotton spinning center of the South
This county has ia spinning mills
in the South 100000 the cotton section knitting
and the rest in the rayon section
Houses and the tenouray considered
reform while Of the sections work average
$780, Typical envelopes
Mill follows:
Juy 1890 lts days.. $I70
September, 3 days. $50
September, days. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Unemployment throughout the
spite Work.
who running three looms running
cotton spinning mills have the eight
ten twelve The secretary the Southern Textile
Ashev Convention of July 9Th informed
producing 200
Loay they formerly paid about $50 running for eight
now they less than $40 for running from twelve looms
The mills twentyfour hours day. working
children whole families in shifts The mill usually
die of the mill town with all the feuda lords exercised
serfs Changang hours low and intense with pegra
and starvation the lot of the majority
Of the South.
The number of children in the mills increase and
girls constitute about half of the labor These
douby exploited and the
of exploitation What be about conditions
be said about workers the other industries throughout this
section and the South and when speaking Negro
worker must multiply what said about the conditions the
workers.