Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-24

Federation and its radical rival the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle points out that
"the Southern mill workers have little
sympathy for sweeping radical policies,
but neither do they have any especial
reason to look with sympathy on afhlla-
ton with organizations strong among
the competitive Northern cotton mills.
/" The Southern mill owners no
doubt realize this as we'll as anybody,
and they may take it into account in
dealing with their workers. The sooner
they contrive to satisfy their wage
earners the less chance they run of
seeing their mills unionized under the
federation auspices"
A survey of the situation, made by
men inspired with the sole purpose to
serve the ends of justice and of truth,
to protect the rights of both capital and
labor" is advocated by the Nashville
Banner, which says of the situation,
THE entire South has a deep concern
in the solution, for upon it depends
whether :ilis section, is to be spared the
disorders and; damage, economic and So
cial. from which New England has long
suffered" The Chattanooga News also
favors "a searching investigation by
State authorities" The Columbia Rec
Crd welcomes a legislative labor inquiry
in South Carolina, with the statement.
I'VE can but believe that the committee
is impressed by the frightful conse-
queneeS to the South. and to South
Carolina i'll particular. that will follow
from anything but an orderly correc-
ton of conditions now unsatisfactory"
The day of ave-driving in the cot
ton mills" as viewed by the Roanoke
Times, lis at an end. Unless the own
ers and operators recognize this volun-
tarily. they will be made to recognize it
by other means. In either case the
eventful result will be the same" The
New York Evening Post recognizes that
1.-The history of labor disputes repeats
itself in the South" while the Appleton
Post-Crescent expresses regret that
capital and labor at time when they
have almost quit fighting in the North
should begin TO fight in the South"
Southern industry remarks the An
niStOn Star, should seek to avoid mis-
takes that have been made in other
sections if the satisfactory conditions
of the past are to continue.
At the same time it is we'll for the
Southern textile workers to keep In
mind that the textile industry of the
country has been undergoing q period
of marked depression, and that uneco-
noInic wage demands in this section at
this time might have the same effect
that such demands had on the industry
in New England" The Asheville Times
believes that there are unmlstakable
conditions existing which will continue
to cause strife in the textile industry
until conditions are changed"
THE give-andtake principle" sug-
gestS the Charleston Evening Post has
advanced i'll all industries, and ways of
arriving at satisfactory working ar
rangementS without strife have come
into more and more favor as both sides
have discovered how much more profita-
BILE to all Is .amiCable compromise than
the attitude of the bitter-enders. For
the sake of the Southern textile indus
try it is to be hoped that both sides
will have leadership of the kind that
makes for industrial peace" The Chat
tanooga Times AYERS that "the situation
at Elizabethton is q costly and impress
of refusal on the part of either labor or
employers. or both, to be guided in their
dealings with each other by reasonable
ness and considerations of fair play"
After making due allowance for pos
sible eXaggeratiOn, there is still evil
dence of a deplorably low recompense
for workers in the mills of the affected
territory" declares the Philadelphia
Bulletin. and testimony TO the
evils of low wages is given by the Nor
gantown New Dominion and the Duluth
Herald The Milwaukee Journal states
as to one investigation: Here is the
mother of five children working 65
hours week for an average wage OF
$3.50. Here is married woman of IS
who works so hours week for SO. And
. boy of 16 who works ~ hours for $l2.
Such things as these. and we have not
even touched the story of the children
Of the South. If far-on owners, care
VI profits, have fought, and hired lob
byists to fight, all ether forms Of correc-
ton, at least decent people must be
glad that the labor unions are at work
IA the South.