The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-31

ident of the Employers Cotton
Textile Institute.
Thus there is the distinct pos
Sibility of an attempt to either halt
the textile strike before Saturday
night or shortly thereafter.
President Roosevelt is reported in
Washington to be watching devel-
opments. However, there is no
doubt that Garrison is executing
his instructions. The employers
continue to set up their machine
guns, seemingly determined to risk
a test of strength with the broad
mass of workers if substantial
strikebreaking concessions in the
form Of an investigation" board or
some such formula are not sur
rendered to them by the U. T. w.
leadership.
Reading the strike call to a large
group of A. F. Of l.. officials headed
by Secretary Frank Morrison, news
papermen, photographers and the
strike committee members, German,
before handing the dispatch to the
operator installed in strike head
quarters, prophesied:
Every man and woman will rally
to the strike lines and the great
cotton textile industry will not
move wheel or a thread after the
hour set to stop the mills"
Mcmahon declared that a new
flood Of messages from the ranks
OF the workers throughout the
country is pouring into strike head
quarters expressing eagerness to
begin the struggle"
1--WE were able to do but little
business because we were being
showed under by a flood of teIe-
grams from local unions reporting
to us that they are standing at
attention awaiting the strike call,
eager to have the struggle begin,
now that the die is cast. There
were congratulatory kilograms and
kilograms pIedging us all possible
support. / have never in all my
somewhat long experience wit
messed such a demonstration of
solidarity and of support -
MacMahon announced after the
meeting of his executive council.
Conference Door Opened
The conference door was left open
by German in the message announc-
ing the strike. 1--WE have exhausted
every resource in the direction OF
peaceful settlement. We have been
met, I am sorry to say, by an AFRO
gance on the part of the employers
that is amazing in this day and
year. There are, we know, many
employers who disagree with the
policy of the Cotton Textile InSti-
tute almost as much as we do, but
they are powerless for the present.
German also repeated the song
he has sung throughout the nearly
two weeks endeavors to find a suit.
able formula for the smothering o.
the strike either before or shortly
after the strike begins. He chanted
II emphasize to you that we arr
striking against the management O
the industry The Cotton Textil,
Institute can find nothing better II
say in answer to our demands thai
to accuse us Of striking against tn,
government. Surely the government
does not own the mills. If tn
mills supported the government
policy there would be no need TO
a strike.
They have defeated the govern
ment's purpose in the textile in
dustry. We are striking agains
management and our purpose is t,
correct the unbearable practices O
management"
Unfortunately for Mr.. Gormar
the facts are that the mill man
agements constitute the Govern
ment Code Authority, that the Cot
ton Textile Code against which h
insists he is not striking wa
drawn up by the employers and Nc
Mahon, and that the Cotton Tex
tile Institute dominates the entir
INDUSTRY.
Germans appeal to good employ
ers a la Theodore Roosevelt under
lines the probability that both Il,
U. T. w. strike leadership and tn
Government will attempt to a,
shortly on Garrisoil's plan to sir
vestigate" the strike out of exist
ence.