The American Cotton Industry; a Study of Work And Workers
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He thought the Harriman loom a very good loom, and said that he could run twelve of them easily. This man was an example of the nomadic character of American labour. It is by no means unusual for a man, with his wife and family and household goods, to drive up 76 THE AMERICAN COTTON INDUSTRY in a waggon to the door of a Southern country mill at four or five o'clock in the afternoon and offer their services. The manager is nearly always glad to have them, and sees that they are housed before nig...htfall. I myself have seen a whole trainload of workpeople — men, women, and chil- dren, with their beds, bedding, and cooking utensils — travelling from Georgia to a new mill in North Carolina. As the train came into Columbia a curious little pro- cession passed up the street. About a score of black con- victs, dressed in an ugly uniform of dirty white cotton with broad black stripes, carrying picks and shovels over their shoulders, and chained together, two and two, by the ankle, swung up the hill, followed by a white man with a rifle.
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