Proceedings of the Annual Convention ..., Volumes 10-141916 - Cotton manufacture |
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... believe that with concerted effort , this country can export at least twenty per cent . of all cotton mill products , and if that can be done , over production will be impossible and hard times will soon only be a memory . MILL COSTS ...
... believe that with concerted effort , this country can export at least twenty per cent . of all cotton mill products , and if that can be done , over production will be impossible and hard times will soon only be a memory . MILL COSTS ...
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... believe that with concerted effort , this country can export at least twenty per cent . of all cotton mill products , and if that can be done , over production will be impossible and hard times will soon only be a memory . MILL COSTS ...
... believe that with concerted effort , this country can export at least twenty per cent . of all cotton mill products , and if that can be done , over production will be impossible and hard times will soon only be a memory . MILL COSTS ...
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... believe will be in a better position still to withstand European competition after the war . Now let us consider the status of American trade in exports of manufactures of cotton . In 1890 our exports amounted to $ 9,999,277 , in 1900 ...
... believe will be in a better position still to withstand European competition after the war . Now let us consider the status of American trade in exports of manufactures of cotton . In 1890 our exports amounted to $ 9,999,277 , in 1900 ...
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... believe the preliminary physical examination now in force in some of the larger industrial centers of the North and Middle West are found to exclude from two to five per cent . of the appli- cants for work . The objection may be raised ...
... believe the preliminary physical examination now in force in some of the larger industrial centers of the North and Middle West are found to exclude from two to five per cent . of the appli- cants for work . The objection may be raised ...
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... the proceedings of our meeting . I believe we are going to have a valuable account of what we have done and show we have not been asleep . I have a telegram from Mr. Hutchison , 38 THE N. C. COTTON MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION.
... the proceedings of our meeting . I believe we are going to have a valuable account of what we have done and show we have not been asleep . I have a telegram from Mr. Hutchison , 38 THE N. C. COTTON MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION.
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American Applause Asheville Asso Association of North BAHNSON bales Bills of Lading cent certificate Chairman Charlotte Child Labor co-operation Commission Congress Constitution contract corporation Cotton Manufacturers Association Cotton Mill Company Cotton Mills Court demurrage dollars Draper Durham Hosiery Mills efficiency eight employed or permitted Executive Committee export factory or manufacturing facturing Gentlemen Government grade Haw River increase industry interest interstate commerce Interstate Commerce Commission legislation machine machinery manufacturing establishment matter meeting membership ment motion N. C. Gastonia nation operation person PRESIDENT RUFFIN production rates regulate resolution Roanoke Rapids Second Vice-President Secretary and Treasurer shipment shipped shipper South Southern spindles spinning Spinning Frames superintendent textile thing Third Vice-President thousand nine hundred tion Traffic Department United vote W. C. Ruffin War Savings Stamps yarn YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 24 - I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid 1 We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings, that " except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.
Page 105 - That no producer, manufacturer, or dealer shall ship or deliver for shipment in interstate or foreign commerce * * * any article or commodity the product of any mill, cannery, workshop, factory...
Page 106 - That no dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party residing in the United States, from whom he purchases such articles, to the effect that the same is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of this act, designating it.
Page 24 - I firmly believe this; and I also believe, that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel ; we shall be divided by our little, partial, local interests ; our projects will be confounded ; and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by-word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter, from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing government by human wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.
Page 15 - Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are. I ask for the reading...
Page 48 - ... the county, if there be one, and if there be none, then in a newspaper published in an adjoining county.
Page 60 - If it be held that the term includes the regulation of all such manufactures as are intended to be the subject of commercial transactions in the future, It is impossible to deny that It would also include all productive industries that contemplate the same thing.
Page 56 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...