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CIRCULAR 10 0, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



Table 19. — Replies to question, "Did you have any objection to your local 

 association warehouse manager?" 





Replies from members of— 



Reply 



Sim-cured 

 pool 



Dark-fired 

 pool 



Old-belt 

 pool 



Eastern 



Carolina 



pool 



South 



Carolina 



pool 



All pools 



Yes 



Number 

 20 

 10 



1 



Number 

 26 

 76 

 



Number Number 

 38 18 

 156 , 132 

 1 



Number 

 26 



Number 



198 



No 



133 507 



Other replies . 



2 8 













It does appear, however, that some of the warehousemen lacked 

 the tact, knowledge, and ability to be the local leaders, contact men, 

 and representatives of the association and to render competent serv- 

 ice to the members. Some were temperamentally unfitted to listen 

 sympathetically, courteously, or patiently to the questions and wishes 

 of the members. In certain sections, the warehouse managers 

 antagonized the farmers by their independent and unhelpful atti- 

 tude. The failure of the warehousemen to give full information in 

 regard to salaries and other affairs of the association created a feel- 

 ing of mistrust and dislike, and even led farmers to question the 

 honesty and competence of the warehouse managers. 



SALAKIES OF EMPLOYEES 



Much criticism has been directed against the association on account 

 of the salaries it paid or was supposed to be paying to its officials 

 and employees. Table 20 gives the average salaries monthly for 

 some of the employees as given by the records of the association 

 and reports of the receivers and of the Agricultural Investigating 

 Committee. 



Table 20. — Average monthly salaries paid association officials and employees 



Position 



1922 



1923 



1924 



1925 



Executive 



Dollars 

 » 1, 224. 85 

 2 367. 67 

 2 275. 33 

 2 135. 43 

 2 295. 59 



Dollars 

 i 1, 051. 98 

 2 254. 36 

 2 271. 03 

 2 131. 73 

 2 218. 75 



Dollars 

 i 772. 48 

 3 192. 53 

 3 255. 06 



Dollars 

 i 567. 29 











Clerk 





Field-serviceman 



3 164. 64 

 3 694. 45 

 3 589. 81 

 3 288. 33 





District warehouse manager 





Supervising grader 

























1 Receivers' Report, 1928. * Agricultural Investigating Committee Report. 



3 Minutes, June, 1924; data for June, 1924. 



The salaries paid to the executive officers have been subjected to a 

 great deal of criticism. Table 21 shows the amounts paid as sal- 

 aries to officers of the association during the period Februarv 8, 1922, 

 to June 19, 1926, by fiscal years. In 1922-23 and 1923-21 six offi- 

 cials were emploved at salaries ranging from $12,000 to $15,000 per 

 year, aggregating $163,999.98 in 1922-23 and $135,333.33 in 1923-21. 

 One official, whose salary was $25,000, resigned, and another, whose 

 salary was $10,000, died in 1923. These positions were not filled. In 

 1924-25 every official whose salary was over $10,000 voluntarily 

 submitted to a reduction of salary, so that in 1921-25 there were four 

 officials drawing salaries from $11,000 to $26,000, which totaled 



