ANALYSIS OP TOBACCO GROWERS ' ASSOCIATION 



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$72,333.24. In 1925-26 most of these officers accepted further reduc- 

 tions in salary. The totals show a marked downward trend from 

 1922-23 to 1925-26. 



In regard to employing officers for the association, the minutes of 

 the board of directors of March 14, 1922, state : 



The point was made during the discussion that it was necessary to secure 

 outstanding and big men as the principal officers of the corporation and that 

 these men should be secured for whatever salary it was necessary to pay. 

 Every member of the board expressed himself as being in favor of this 

 point. 



In a letter to the executive committee on October 10, 1922, the 

 director of the warehouse department showed the comparative diffi- 

 culty of securing employees in the different districts where the 

 degree of sentiment for and against the association varied. It fol- 

 lows, in part : 



I would like also to call your attention to the fact that the salaries in Vir- 

 ginia and Central Carolina are less per month than in the other belts. The 

 reason, of course, is that we had a very poor sign-up in eastern Carolina and 

 South Carolina and concessions had to be made in the employment of men. 

 They did not have to be made where we had a strong sign-up. 



Table 21. — Salaries paid officials of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Associa- 

 tion, February 8, 1922-June 19, 1926, by fiscal years 



Official 



1922-23 i 



1923-24 



1924-25 



1925-26 



1926-27 > 





Dollars 



5, 625. 00 

 4, 200. 00 



7, 500. 00 



12, 666. 66 



1, 000. 00 



44, 999. 99 

 7, 500. 00 



35, 000. 00 

 23, 833. 33 

 25, 000. 00 

 22, 500. 00 



6, 750. 00 

 3, 600. 00 

 S, 000. 00 

 3, 600. 00 



Dollars 

 4, 500. 00 

 3, 600. 00 



7, 500. 00 

 12, 000. 00 

 12, 000. 00 



38, 333. 33 

 9, 000. 00 



30, 000. 00 

 25, 000. 00 



Dollars 

 3, 900. 00 

 3, 600. 00 



7, 500. 00 

 10, 666. 64 



8, 374. 96 



w 



8, 000. 00 



26, 000. 00 

 21, 666. 60 



Dollars 

 3, 600. 00 

 3, 300. 00 



7, 041. 63 

 7, 708. 33 



Dollars 







Secretary and director of field service de- 



1, 083. 33 



Treasurer 









Dark-leaf department: 







Assistant general manager 







Bright-leaf department: 



17, 166. 61 

 15, 416. 66 







1, 250. 00 



Do . 





18, 000. 00 

 6, 000. 00 

 3, 600. 00 

 3, 600. 00 

 3, 600. 00 



14, 000. 00 

 6, 000. 00 

 3, 600. 00 

 3, 600. 00 

 3, 600. 00 



9, 200. 00 

 1, 249. 98 

 3, 600. 00 

 3, 000. 00 

 3, 000. 00 













Field service 3 



Do___. 



250.00 







Total 



206, 774. 98 



176, 733. 33 



120, 508. 20 



74, 283. 21 



2, 583. 33 



1 Sixteen months. Fiscal years extended from June 1 to May 31, but in this table the period Feb. 8, 

 1922, to May 31, 1923, was considered as one fiscal year. 



2 Nineteen days. 



3 Member of board of directors. 



4 Deceased. 



It was necessary to employ a large number of persons for clerical 

 work, common labor, and other duties in the head office, the field- 

 service department, and the warehouse department. According to 

 the pay rolls of the association in October, 1922, the 1,006 regular 

 employees of the association, exclusive of 16 employees in the execu- 

 tive office, were distributed as is shown in Table 22. 



By closing some warehouses, consolidating tasks, and eliminat- 

 ing unnecessarv workers, the number of employees decreased everv 

 year until in 1925-26 it was 598, about 60 per cent of the 1922-23 

 number. 



During the first year it was the policy of the warehouse depart- 

 ment to use five men in each warehouse- — exclusive of the tobacco 

 handlers and laborers. One of these five was to be the warehouse 



