The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-07
By SEYMOUR WALDMAN
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Of IL special strike committee
chairman, today made it clear that
his warm welcome yesterday to the
Roosevelt banker-lawyer Mediation
Board and his subsequent no-strike,
compulsory arbitration board lad
justment' proposals are but the
prelude to a U.TW. program "best
calculated to aid the President in
his heroic efforts to bring about
real recovery"
Despite his mediation overtures,
however, German declared that
strike kilograms from workers all
over the country still pour in;
every telegram is 100 per cent
strike"
At 9 am. today German an
nounced that "450,0 900 workers are
out. Well hit the IS per cent mark
100000 before the end of the
week. Some strike orders will be
issued tomorrow when the uphol-
stery and drapery workers will be
called out"
Germans figures cannot be taken
as official since new totals are adj
mitted each hour. 1t is conceded
fact, however, that the number out
on strike is being multiplied with
each new report.
Reports continue to pour in re-
porting more mills closed. We are
closing the industry. Every hour
sees new mills closed. Even the sec
tions that we knew would lag be-
hind are joining the strike. Today
the strike tide is flooding up across
North Carolina. New England is
racing ahead.
I'VE entered this strike as last
desperate resort to bring about
definite correction of evils that
could be tolerated no longer. We
undertook to apply the cure our
selves, after a year of delay and
pickering through boards" German
declared today in a formal release.
On arbitration, he said:
"We do not know whether the
union will be asked to submit the
textile strike issues to arbitration,
but if an arbitration proposal is
made we shall agree to it only after
we have closed all mills in all divi-
sions of the industry"
Bouquets for Roosevelt
Roosevelt" he said, has acted
out of a spirit Of helpfulness and
because of his genuine concern for
the welfare of the workers. We
know that. . :" Despite the Off
cially admitted reduced standard of
living suffered by all workers
under the Roosevelt program.
1t is obvious that the German
strike leadership is baffled by the
totally unexpected. mountainous
wave of strike militsncy of the
workers. Only this desperate deter
mination on the part of the work
ers to fight on the picket lines has
prevented the U.T.W. leadership
from stopping the strike forthwith
on receipt of the Roosevelt pro-
posal. Indications point to the at
tempt to keep the workers under
U.T.W. control within grazing
radius of the U.T.W., as it were.
Acting on the recommendation OF
Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of the
National Labor Relations Board,
Roosevelt last night appointed a
textile inquiry" mediation board OF
three to Inquire into the general
character and extent of the COM
plants Of the workers in the cotton,
wool, rayon, silk and allied indus
tries, ITO inquire into the problems
confronting the employers" and
upon the request of the parties to a
labor dispute, act as a board of
voluntary arbitration or select a
person or agency for voluntary ar
bitration." Each board member
will be paid $25 a day.
Roosevelt ordered the new board
to report to him, through the Sec
rotary of Labor" and mot later
than Oct. l, 1884"
This new Roosevelt board consists
of:
John w. Winant, chairman. mill
lionaire Governor OF New Hamp-
shire, one Of the textile states.
Many of today's capitalist press
stories label him liberal Repub-
lican" Winant, in who's Who in
America" lists himself as engaged