The Indianapolis times., 1933-09-02
GARMENT TRADE
STRIKE END is
REPORTED NEAR
Hosiery Workers Are Ready
to Negotiate; Miners
Walk Out.
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b. United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. MAX Meyer,
member Of the national labor board,
sent here by the national recovery
administration. predicted that a
settlement may be made today Of
the strike Of 1000 garment workers.
The workers struck twelve days
ago because they contended their
employers were not abiding by NRA
code provisions.
Striking millinery workers said
that settlement Of the garment
strike viii result IN settlement Of
their strike if the same terms are
met by their employers. which IS
expected. once an agreement IS
reached.
BIZ United Press
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 2.-Twen-
" thousand hosiery workers viii
return Monday 70 the mills they left
Thursday when two strike plckets
were shot and killed during riot
al the Cambria hosiery mill.
Friday night thousands Of the
workers marched past the casketS
Of the Two men. Glenn H. Norwood
and Frank Minor. as they lay in
state in Knitters' hall. Police esti-
mated 5000 persons filed through
the hall during the evening.
officials Of the American Fedora
ton Of Full-Fashioned Hosiery
Workers planned TO inform the ma
tfonal labor board at Washington
today that members Of the Phila-
delphia union had agreed to nego-
tiate their demands with manufac-
turers.' rather than participate in
a general. strike originally planned
for Friday.
The union members, after consid-
erable discussion, voted 70 accept
the proposals of the labor board
which would prevent a strike and
adjust their demands Of mill
owners.
By United Press
PATERSON. N. j., Sept. "A
strike Of silk workers. centering in
the mills in this area, will be sub
mitted to the national labor board
for mediation, il was revealed after
Senator Robert F. Wagner invited
workers and employers to meet. The
conference viii be held in Washing
ton next Tuesday.
b. United Press
DES MONIES. Ia, sept. 2.-More
than 500 Iowa coal miners in two
communities launched a frontal at
tack for a thirty-hour week and a
SIS day today, laid down their tools
and said they would not return to
work until an NRA code is signed.
Nearly 600 miners were on strike
90 Williamson. Ia, near Charlton,
while 300 others struck near here.
The williamson group. which tied
up coal mining at the Rock Island
Improvement Company mine No. 3
and the Central Iowa Fuel Com
pany mine No. 5, drafted an appeal
to Recovery Administrator Hugh S.
johnson. protesting delay in sign
ing the coal code, and called on
other Iowa miners to join them in
a WalkOut.
The immediate result was strike
of 100 employees Of the Central Serv-
ice Company, Des Moines, and 200
of the NOrwood-White Coal Com
pany. Des Moines. shutting mines
belonging to those companies. The
strikers hoped to enlist several
thousand other Iowa miners today.
Bolstered by this success. the
williamson group launched an out
right appeal to Illinois, Kentucky
and other midwest coal mine work.
ers to add their force to the strike
and thus force operators to sign an
NRA code.
Sam Ballyntine, president of the
Iowa Coal Operators Association,
charged the strikers with violating
the blanket code and existing labor
contracts. and said the operators
would stand pat" against the
strikers