Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1895
The letter from one agent, Mr. Womble, appears in another place, and shows the mills in the light that an outsider views their treatment of employees. It is over his own signature.
We do not desire, nor will we array one class against another, but these people bring stringent laws on themselves. The same trouble has been experienced with the tobacco men, ' only worse. Last year the tobacco men complained that our blanks did not suit their business, and thought if I had a set Of questions prepared especially for their line Of labor I would have no trouble. We got out blank No. 4, but were doomed to disappointment, as only five per cent. Answered, some few answered very fully, showing that some are not ashamed or afraid to Show how they are treating their fellowman, and had nothing to hide. To those who have taken the trouble to answer, I desire to return my thanks, and to those who have not, say - that if you get the Massachusetts or New York law compelling you to answer. You have nobody but yourselves to blame.
The tables are especially valuable for their accuracy. They have been very carefully compiled, and if they Show an incorrect result it is due to the answers on the blanks, and not from any mistake on our part. The Agricultural tables show some things that will be doubted, such as the wages of farm labor being when the general impression is that it is not over but we do not make the figures, only tabulate them as they are returned on our blanks. We have given figures and facts as they are given to us, without any coloring or bias of our own.
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