Show v v v v v v v v v w w v f v v v w v MILL VILLAGES IN SOUTH undeniably afford better conditions than the people encountered elsewhere in south carolina persons or one fifth of its white population live in cotton mill villages while in the counties of greenville spartanburg and anderson one third of the population is lit in these villages and the villages continue to grow the south carolina mill village Is usually a separate community sometimes having a population of over inhabitants it is entirely owned and controlled by the mill and its residents 1 I have no village corporation of any k kind irid those these villages are built by tho the mill nia managements ants for the simple reason that their people could not otherwise be housed near a mill they attract much more tit attention from strangers bilvin from southerners for strangers seeing in them for the first time the general poverty and other distressful distress fu conditions of our people handicapped as they have been with legacies from slavery and war associate these with the village but all carolinians know says the south atlantic quarterly that these villagers are of the same stock as they themselves being composed as a class of the less successful to whom the mills have offered much better wages with better labor and living conditions than they had before it la Is undeniable that south carolina mill managements owing to various causes come into closer personal touch with their individual opera operatives operatic es and feel more interest in them as a body than do eastern cotton manufacturers and that south carolina operatives have been benefited by coming to the mills that the separate cottages of southern mill villages with plenty of air and larger grounds are better than the city tenements generally used by such operatives in the east and that the village living conditions as a rule are steadily improve ine file |