As a result, rural communities struggled to maintain their populations in the face of dwindling farming income and the lack of industrial job opportunities. Promising a surplus of cheap, nonunion labor and relying on a variety of inducements, some of which were financed by public subscription or deductions from workers' checks, several GA towns succeeded in attracting small, low-wage employers— mostly textile mills —in the 1930s. (jan 1, 1930