Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-10-01

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l believe that with the cooperation
of. the owners of lots in the cemeteries
of the city l can do much to improve
and enhance the beauty of every Gem
etery in the city municipality owned.
Thanking you again for your inter
est and wishing you every success tor
your paper, l am
Very respectfully yours,
A. G. MARSH,
Superintendent of Cemeteries.
ANOTHER PLAN TO RELIEVE
UNEMPLOYMENT
To the Editor:
The following letter is being sent
to the heads of different fraternal Or
ders in North Carolina, South Caro-
lima and Georgia.
F. n. McCUBBINs.
Dear Sir: Several days ago | was out
at the Country Club of Salisbury and
noticed a power lawn mower moving
the green. 1 was informed that this
power lawn mower took the place of
three men with hand lawn mowers.
On my way back l came by the tele-
phone office and l have been told that
an automatic switch board have re-
duced the number of operators of the
telephone company to one-half the
number. l also know from my per-
sonal knowledge that one electric
crane at the Southern railroad shops
of this city enables three men in day
time and three at night to do the
work formerly requiring $50 men.
am also reliably Informed that one
cigarette machine in the cigarette fac
tories does away with 70 girls and am
told and firmly believe that in all lines
of industries that labor saving ma
chimes has done and is doing the same
thing to other industries.
Several weeks ago the Southern rail-
road was contemplating cutting off
200 men at the Spencer shops but by
an agreement, a fv~e-day-a-week plan
was worked out whereby the plant
runs six full days per week but one
fifth of the men lay off on Monday,
one-hfth on Tuesday, one-hfth on
Wednesday and SO on down the week.
This enabled the Southern railroad to
not cut off a single man and was a
Godsend to our community, as you
can easily imagine what would hap
pen to the families of 200 men who
were cut off in any community.
l have also been reading about the
cotton mill institute trying to u out
night work, especially among women
and children and while the majority
of the cotton mills have fallen in line,
still there are always a small percent
age of human teaches who will not CO.
operate in any movement of this kind
but will try to take advantage of it
and undersell and cut the price of
those who are trying to do the fair
thing.
l have come to the following con-
clusion; hat an eight-hour fve-day
a week plan in 80 days would elm
mate over Is per cent of the Distress
ed unemployment. l believe it will al
so curtail the manufacturers so that
they could get a profit on the amount
of goods they sell and do away with
cut : throat competition by these
teaches who not only squeeze down
labor and take advantage of human
suferings but will also force them to
pay the same scale of wages and to
quit price cutting which is Gripping
those who want to do the fair thing.
To ask state 70 pass this law
might put these industries at the mer-
cy of the teaches in the adjoining
states. Therefore, l think it necessary
that we try to get a uniform law pass
ed in Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.