The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-01
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 Henry I. Hartman, president of the United States Chamber of Com- merce and high priest of American industrialism, issued bitter state- ment.
 He charged the United Textile Workers with trying to force the government into financing" the walkout. He said the labor depart ment was powerless to say whether the strike was justified. He assert ed that the relief administration had no right to feed the strikers.
 T affirm that policies of the gov ernments hould not be such as to encourage strikes and industrial unrest" he said.
 Gov. Ira c. Blackwood of South Carolina charged South Carolina spinners were "very much" op- posed to the strike. Previously he had ordered out the National Guard. He said it was necessary to protect workers at Seneca.
 Another statement came from George A. Sloan, president of the Cotton Textile Institute, and arch enemy of the strike. He said all but 52 workers in six big South Carolina mills were opposed to walking out. He said employees of the main plant at Decatur, Ala, voted 100 per cent to stay on the job.
 These statements were like red capes fiuttered before a bull at strike headquarters here.
 German in Bitter Reply
 Francis J. German, whose head was survived many a brickbat in picket fights, was angry. Speaking as chairman of the special strike committee. he said concerning Har- riman's statement:
 That is absolutely false and the output of bitterly hostile minds.'
 To Gov. Blackwood he sent a lengthy telegram. He urged the governor not to be swayed by hos tile expressions. He told him to be- ware of the sham cry of striking against the government German ignored Sloan's state- ment. Their positions are as op- posite as black and white.
 Sloan says the strike is unjusti- fled. He says it is directed, in ef- feet, against the MIRA code. He says the industry will not even con- slider the unions demands.
 German says the industry has proffted from the misery of it's workers. He says the greed of the owners has turned the blue eagle into curse.
 Thursday he ordered the cotton strike. Yesterday he ordered the wooden strike. Today he was to or- der the silk strike-unless he re- ceived assurances of cooperation from the industry. The allied gar- ment strike was being planned by another union, with headquarters in New York.
 Conflicting Reports
 From factory towns in Maine and Massachusetts, in Connecticut and the Carolinas, from almost every dingy village dominated by the gaunt outlines of a textile mill, came conflicting and sometimes alarming reports.
 Communists activity in New England was intense. The New Hampshire American Legion noti- fled all mayors that it's members were ready to help keep the reds out"
 Ann Burlak, the "red flame" of many labor uprising, was active. She urged strikers to bring their children into the picket lines to fight the "scabs."
 The Scott detective agency of Boston wsa busy. It contracted to send guards and strikebreakers to mills at Fall River, New Bedford. Worcester and Pawtucket.
 The National Association of Cot ton Manufacturers announced that all New England mills would open as usual after the Labor day holi. day--come what would.
 South To Be UUnanimous
 Southern strike leaders said the walkout would be unanimous. Scott Roberts, president of the Alabama Cotton Manufacturers association, said it would be a "fizzle."
 The he denied Germans seize charges.
 German had said that strife was inevitable. He had charged Ala hama mill owners were placing machine guns in their windows and filling their store rooms with tear gas bombs.
 In all tke weker of conflicting statements, there seemed no way of gauging immediate effectiveness of the walkout. Most mills are closed today, tomorrow and Mon-