Erwin Cotton Mills Increase From 4 to 5-Day Work Week, Jan. 25, 1921

Erwin Cotton Mills at Duke this week will begin operations on full time after having worked on a four-day a week schedule since last November. This announcement was made following a heart to heart talk by William A. Erwin to the 1,000 operatives of the mill.

Mr. Erwin stated that although he would lose by the resumption of full time under the present conditions he did not care to see the operatives suffer unnecessarily. He asked every man and woman to do his or her best. Increased time will mean a boost of about $10,000 a week in the mill’s pay roll.

(From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, Jan. 25, 1921)