The following table shows stocks of full-fashioned and seamless hosiery on hand in recent years:

Stocks of hoisery on hand (dozens of pairs; 000 omitted)

The figures show that there has been no excessive building-up of stocks in recent years, especially when the increased volume of shipments is considered.

11. GROWTH OF EMPLOYMENT

The statement in the Ellenbogen bill that "widespread unemployment" is present in the textile industry does not apply to the hosiery industry, as the following figures of number of workers employed indicate:

In further refutation of this statement it would be well to call attention to the fact that the Hosiery Worker, official organ of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, has, during recent months, frequently had to advertise for hosiery workers in order to assure an adequate force in the union mills. Specifically, we find the following advertisements in issues of the Hosiery Workers since September 1:

In addition to these ads for workers, this publication, during the same period, has twice carried announcements urging any unemployed members of the union to register, thus further evidencing shortage of available skilled workers.

FEBRUARY 4, 1936.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOSIERY MANUFACTURERS.

Mr. SCHNEIDER. I wish to place in the record a letter from Mr. Arthur Besse, of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, which is in response to a request for certain data.

(The document referred to is as follows:)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOOL MANUFACTURERS,
New York City, February 3, 1936.

Hon. GEORGE J. SCHNEIDER,

House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.

DEAR MR. SCHNEIDER: You asked me on the stand on Thursday if I could give you a tabulation showing the different elements in cost in the making of piece goods. I am attaching hereto table 11 which is taken from the Federal Trade Commission report issued in the middle of last year. This gives the major ele

ments of cost as expressed in percentage of selling price. You will note that in the period from July to December 1933 there was a substantial profit. This was due largely to inventory appreciation. The fall in prices in the succeeding year wiped out most of what proved to be the fictitious profits of 1933.

The Federal Trade Commission collected figures for other items of expense but have never made them public. The item of "Other manufacturing expense" included the following: Power purchased; fuel consumed; dyes and chemicals; supplies, repairs, and maintenance; taxes; depreciation on plant and equipment; mill office expense; insurance, welfare, etc.; rents; miscellaneous.

The item of "Selling, administrative, and general expense" included the following: Selling commissions and expenses; officers salaries; interest; other general expense.

I trust this is the information you desire and that it will be helpful to you.
Very truly yours,

ARTHUR BESSE.

TABLE 11.-Percentages of specified costs, expenses, and profit to sales for 125 woolen and worsted companies combining both spinning and weaving for specified periods

Mr. Wood. At this point, Mr. Chairman, I would like to place in the record a letter written by Mr. Paul E. Dean, president of Local Union No. 2182, Union Textile Workers, of Clinton, S. C., in which he encloses some photographs of the textile workers' tents and shacks that they were living in when they were evicted and placed out in the street after the National Labor Relations Board, of Washington, D. C., ordered the Clinton Cotton Mills, of Clinton, S. C., to reinstate former employees to their former positions with pay as of August 26, 1935, to date of reinstatement. But up to the present time these employees have not been reinstated. There were 15 families. I would like to put this in the record at this point, if there is no objection. (The document, enclosing the photographs, is as follows:)

CLINTON, S. C., February 1, 1936. From: Local Union No. 2182, U. T. W. of A, (Clinton Cotton Mills), Clinton S. C. Enclosing snapshot views of 15 families evicted after the National Labor Relations Board, Washington, D. C., ordered the Clinton Cotton Mills, Clinton, S. C., reinstate these former employees to their former positions, with pay from August 26, 1935, to date of reinstatement, but up to present date these employees have not been reinstated, and the pictures will show the conditions these people now exist under at present, and also you will find several views of the homes these people live in, the present rent here 50 cents a room or $1 a week for 4 rooms. These families or people you see in the views, after being evicted did not have any place to go, as the sky was the roof, and I asked Gov. Olin D. Johnston for the tents, and this is the present condition or status.

As you know the Clinton Cotton Mill, Clinton, S. C., case happens to be now in the Board's hands for execution.