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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Instead of Expanding Operations, N.C. Cotton Mills May Go to Part Time in January, 1924

N.C. Cotton Mills Will Not Operate on Full Time. . . Unless There is a Rapid and Unexpected Improvement Within the Next 30 Days Is the Opinion of the Mill Executives

Gastonia, N.C., Jan. 3—North Carolina cotton mills will not inaugurate a program offull time operation in the immediate future, according to executives of a cotton mill representing 150,000 spindles the county of Gaston, it was learned here tonight. Reports from New York stated that the cotton mills in North Carolina were contemplating full time operation and that resultant strength in the cotton strength resulted today on receipt of the reports from North Carolina.

Unless there is a rapid and unexpected improvement (two lines obscured) within the next 30 days. In the opinion of the mill executives, curtailment, instead of expansion in operation is expected to take place.

From the front page of The Goldsboro News, Jan. 4, 1924

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