The Cotton Mills Of South Carolina 1907 PDF Download

. 1907 edition.: ...hour and a half in which to play. At a mill such as Chiquola, where they make print cloths, the boys doff about four times a day and have the balance of the day in which to play. Most of the mills in this State are engoged in manufacturing this class of goods. At Monoghan 1 spent about an hour in a soda water establishment and talked to several of the boys there as to their doffing. They told me that they averaged about seventy-five cents a day, and the four boys with whom 1 talked "doffed" thirty-two frames, with two hundred iind twenty-four bobbins to the frame. It took them seventy-five minutes in which to change the spools and they ran for four hours; altogether they doffed three times a day and had the balance of the time for themselves. They reported for work at (i o'clock in the morning and got off a few minutes later. On No 27 yarns it took twenty-five minutes to doff, and the frames run in the neighborhood of four hours, !n that way giving the boys forty minutes out of every hour and ten minute.! in which to play. At Piedmont the warp was "doffed" every two hours, and it took thirty rainU.tes in which to "doff," and Ihe filling was "doffed" every fifty minutes, and half of the time being rest. But the same thing applies wherever there is a cotton mill, and it is needless to emphasize the fact that the mechanism of..he spinning department is such that it takes time for the bobbins to fill, and during that time thei'e is absolutely nothing for the "doffers" to do except to play. The beys engaged in "doffing," therefore, work only half of their time, and thsy easily earn seventy-five cents A day. if there is anything else in which they can engage that is lighter, or at which they can do better, it certainly has not been found in this State. At Pacolet 1 talked to. several boys, among them Bachelor Floyd and George Ladd, who were, engaged in "doffing." Floyd told me...