September 25th, 1919.

Mr. Carroll L. Mulliken,
Easton, Md.

My dear Sir:-

Replying to yours of the 22nd I beg to say that the controversy at High Point did not involve any question of hours or wages or working conditions. The manufacturers voluntarily came down from a sixty and fifty-seven hour basis to a fifty-five hour basis. During the conference it incidentally came out that the average wage paid was $3.75 a day. There is no wage scale in High Point, there being some fifty factories there, all of them being independent, and each man runs his factory to suit himself without conferring with the others. The one point at issue was whether or not the workers had a right to join a labor union. The manufacturers had denied this right, and in the adjustment they receded from this position.

Very truly yours,

[unsigned]

B-G