In one instance, where such condition was not included and where the other States did not take similar action, the law did not remain in force very long. Obviously, no one State can take action of that sort alone, and our whole cotton industry from the production up to the point of consumption is in one whole. Senator O'MAHONEY. In other words, no single State could take any effective action to protect the producers of cotton unless all the other cotton-producing States cooperated? Mr. MYERS. That is the experience. Senator NORRIS. The whole thing shows that, so far as cotton is concerned, agriculture is not a local problem. Mr. MYERS. It has not appeared so. Senator NORRIS. You should submit these maps to the Supreme Court. Senator O'MAHONEY. It might have been effective had they been submitted. Mr. MYERS. My next exhibit is table V, showing the exports of cotton, by years, from 1931 to 1935, inclusive, by customs districts. I might say that the customs districts through which cotton is exported cover pretty much the borders of the whole country, but the larger volume is through the ports adjacent to the cotton-growing areas. TABLE V.-Exports of domestic raw cotton and linters from the United States, by customs districts Compiled by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce. The statistics relate to the 12 months ending July 31. My next exhibit is table VI, entitled "Summary for the Cotton Textile Manufacturing Industry by States." That shows a total of 1,057 establishments for manufacturing cotton textiles in the United States. However, all but 65 of those are located in 15 States, the outstanding States being North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Alabama. There is a concentration of the cotton manufactured in the early stages, the spinning and weaving, in the Southeast and the New England States. At the present time most of our cotton is both spun and woven in the same mill. We do, however, have spinning mills which do not weave. Part of the yarn goes to other weaving mills, and part of it goes to knitting mills. We have that concentration I just pointed out of spinning and weaving in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Massachu setts. TABLE VI.—Summary for the cotton textile manufacturing industry by States 1 Figures taken from Census of Manufactures, 1933, Bureau of the Census. 2 Figures abstracted from the publications of the Davison Publishing Co. (1935) and from the Official Textile Directory (1935). Difference between figures shown and actual total is caused by rounding of individual items to thousands. But in the knitting industry, as shown in Table VII, we find a different situation, with the concentration in Massachusetts, North Carolina, New York, Tennessee, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Illinois, showing an interstate movement of the yarn from the point of manufacture of the yarn to the point where it is manufactured into knitted wear. |