The cotton mills of South Carolina, 1907; . purpose has been to get typical illustrations, and the figures that I herepresent are not gotten from what are known as parade mills, but have beengathered from various types of mills, and in the different sections of the of the data are from mills. that are regarded as conservative, others arelooked upon as cheap and some of them high-priced. The aim has been to getillustrations that really mean something, and in all instances the data have beengotten directly from the pay rolls, and is to be regarded as absolutely reliable andaccurate. I
The cotton mills of South Carolina, 1907; . purpose has been to get typical illustrations, and the figures that I herepresent are not gotten from what are known as parade mills, but have beengathered from various types of mills, and in the different sections of the of the data are from mills. that are regarded as conservative, others arelooked upon as cheap and some of them high-priced. The aim has been to getillustrations that really mean something, and in all instances the data have beengotten directly from the pay rolls, and is to be regarded as absolutely reliable andaccurate. In my series of articles five years ago I published the following interestingsummary from the pay roll of a large and successful Piedmont section cottonmill, and I am presenting in connection with this statement a pay roll of five yearssubsequent, showing the comparative wages in the various departments in 1902 and1907. The increase, as will be noted, is over 43 per cent in the actual average payper day for the operatives in the same mills:cottonmillsofsou00kohn. 41
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