The workers in the furniture factories--who are chiefly men, as few women or children can be employed in this industry--are few in number compared with the male employees in the cotton mills and, except in the case of a few towns, can hardly be discussed as a group at all.

Both whites and negroes are employed, but the white man is usually in the responsible post, though a few negroes tend important machines.

The general average of education and intelligence among the whites is higher here than in the cotton mills, and wages are likewise higher.

Conditions in other establishments making articles of wood are practically the same.
Lumber mills range from a small neighborhood sawmill with a handful of employees to the great organizations which push railroads into the deep woods and strip a mountain side or devastate the lowlands.

Such organizations require a great number of laborers, whom they usually feed and to whom they issue from a "commissary" various necessary articles which are charged against the men's wages.