New Britain herald., 1930-04-28
PROVING UP SOUTHS INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION


 At the moment when the govern ors of southern states were meeting in conference in Asheville Saturday came to hand d report of conditions in the southern textile industry made under the social relations depart ment of the American Unitarian As sociation, whose head offices are in Boston.
 The same association, it is an nounced, will make a similar investi- gation and report upon the textile industry in New England
 The extent of increased industry in the ten states south of the Ohio and Potomac and east of the Mississippi is shown from the figures for 1927, the last available The increase from 1921 to 1927 was from $3,2S4.O00,- 900 in 1921 to s5,277, 900, 900 in 1927. This increase of 50 per cent occurred factured in the remainder of the United States was increasing only 1-2 per cent. In the ten southern states covered in the above figures, the number of manufacturing wage earners increased 40 per cent during those six years, while the number in the remainder of the country was increasing only 20 per cent.
 But the factor most commonly considered is that of the character of the labor employed. One investi- gator has reported that if the wage scale is lower in the South it must be remembered that there are apt to be more wage earners per family. As against longer hours may be placed the fact that most southern indus trial workers have been recruited from farms where a sunrise to sun- set day is generally accepted. If pro- tective legislation is less advanced than in the North, more of personal relationship still continues between employer and employee in the South, and the cost of living is lower there than in other industrial sections of the land.
 The industrialzation of the South is reflected in the sackening hos tility of the Democratic party to the protective tariff system. When there were few industrial plants in the South congressman from there were a unit in denouncing the tariff principle. How this southern indus trializaton has changed the pre- vailing view toward the tariff is in dcated Tn the record of Democratic platform utterances since 1892. Our Washington bureau sends the fol- lowing complete analysis of Demo- cratic history toward the tariff since that year and up to the very present:
 The Democratic platform of 1892 denounced Republican protection as d fraud and a robbery of the many for the sake Of the few The platform Of 1912 declared that the Government had no right or power to collect tariff duties except for revenue. In 1924 the Democratic Party was declaring for tariff that would promote effective competition, protect against monopoly and at the same time produce a fair revenue This phraseology was repeated in the 1928 platform, which came cut also for the maintenance of legiti- mate business. a high standard Of wages, and difference between the cost of production at home and abroad as the extreme measure Of every tariff rate" And in his cam-
 
 1 tariff, urging only specific revisions Of the existing Republican protective i tariff, urgign only specific revisions | in specific schedules after impartial | investigator. He declared that large majority of the Democratic candidates for Congress also had gone on record in favor or that posi- ! ton.
 In 1922, three Democratic Seua. l tors voted for passage of the Ford ney- McCumber tariff bill Last June, l nine Democratic Senators voted or were paired against the Borah reso- lution to limit the pending tariff bill to revision or the agricultural and directly related schedules. tThe rcso- . lution Was lost by one vote.) When i the pending act passed the Senate on 1 March 24 Of this year, by vote Of | $ to 31, tight Democrats voted or were paired in it's support. After tho | passage of the bill, Senator Watson ! cited 52G Democratic votes in the senate for tariff increases. and ASA 1 Democratic votes against decreases