. The National Civic Federation review . e do the spinnirg, and theelders the weavirg. The children can-ot weave and,therefore, the picture is totally misleading. But the Southern cotton mill men wart you to we believe that we are doing right and our ut-most to raise a totally poverty-stricken country to oneof prosperity for all. through constructive efforts, andthat we shall continue to work for the greater improve-ment of conditions in the South. T OHN GOLDEN, President of the Textile WorkersJ of Fall River, related some of his experiences ona visit to the Southern cotton mills s
. The National Civic Federation review . e do the spinnirg, and theelders the weavirg. The children can-ot weave and,therefore, the picture is totally misleading. But the Southern cotton mill men wart you to we believe that we are doing right and our ut-most to raise a totally poverty-stricken country to oneof prosperity for all. through constructive efforts, andthat we shall continue to work for the greater improve-ment of conditions in the South. T OHN GOLDEN, President of the Textile WorkersJ of Fall River, related some of his experiences ona visit to the Southern cotton mills some four yearsago. commissioned by his organization and the Ameri-can Federation of Labor to studj conditions of certain portions of the South he said : Iwent irto the homes of the working people; I lived withthem; I went through the mills; I saw their earning?,and when any man tells me that the earnings of theSouthern cotton operative are equal to the earnings in 8 The National Civic Federation Review March—April, 1907. SOME OF THE SPEAKERS AT THE FEDERATIONS SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING. March—April, 1907 The National Civic Federation Review 9 the North, I am not going to believe it, because I knowthey are not. And the conditions are not equal; ifthey were, we would have more people going there dur-ing* depressions; during some of our big stoppages inthe East we would have more people going downSouth to work; we have had a few, but the only onesthat stay are those that either cannot get away or arefortunate enough to become officials. I want to tell you in regard to this question ofchild labor, that I am frank enough to admit it isntconfined to the South alone. There is a lot of it downthere. 1 think the question of whether it does exist hasgone beyond the debating stage. We have some of itin the North and East. In spite of many of our humaneand progressive labor laws, we have it in Massachusetts,my home State, because I have seen it there. That ismostly on account
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