The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-15
STRIKE COMMITTEE
| ASKS CUSTER AFTER
GENERALS REbUKE
Attack on MRA Chief Follows
Declaration Friday That
Labor Broke Word
PREJUDICED, WOLL ANSWERS
Utterances by Government Exc
cutivs May Make Settlement
More Difficult
PREJUDICED, WoLL ANSWERS

(By The Associated Press)
Resignation Of Hugh S. johnson as
national recovery administrator was
demanded Saturday by the strike
committee of the United Textile
Workesr of America.
In statement demanding his resig-
nation. issued in Washington, D. c.,
the committee attacked johnson for
his declaration Friday night that the
textile strike violated an agreement.
Francis j. German. chairman of
the strike committee, asserted that
Johnson himself had violated the
agreement of June and declared lat
least. I think. he has demonstrated
his utter unfitness to hold public Of
flee. We demand that he resign
forthwith"
German accused Johnson of making
frequent attacks upon organized labor
and called his address "a despicable
piece of business"
Johnson's charge also drew answer
ing fire from Matthew Woll, vice
president Of the American Federation
Of Labor.
Said johnson, in q Carnegie hall
address Friday night to various code
authorities:
The present strike Is an absolute
violation Of an understanding be-
tween Thomas F. Mcmahon. (presi-
dent of the United Textile Workers.
and myself"
Said Vol:
johnson, by his unwarrantable Ut
terances and prejudiced intrusion into
the textile situation, has made for
greater difficulties in composing ex-
listing differences"
Discouraged With Labor
johnson said that this. his first g.
perience with organized labor in the
textile industry, was not encourag-
ing
If such agreements Of organized
labor are worth no more than this.
then that institution = no such . re-
sponsible fundamentally Is can make
contracts on which this country can
rely" he added.
Vol, who was among those who
heard johnson speak, said In q state
ment issued after the meeting:
Representing the president . no
(Johnson) does, it III becomes him Is
administrator Of NRA to manifest his
personal feelings and prejudices
against labor and in q matter Of such
vital public interest and grave public
concern.
..nosv>;ta fohrcov,. ettocl, an az
gained labor, the labor movement
will go on. I am confident that tex
tile workers can and will answer
Johnson"
johnson, in his address, said his
heart weeps" for George A. Sloan.
president Of the cotton textile insti-
tute and spokesman for the mill own
ers in the present labor dispute. Z
know what kind Of opposition he went
up against" johnson said.
Sloan, johnson went on, "got con-
cessions for labor which were OPP
posed by practically the whole indus
try. It is pity that he now has to
take the rap in the dissension be-
tween labor and management Of the
whole proposition"
Bomb Hurled in Carolina
While the Rhode Island strike situ-
alton was quiet enough so that Presi-
dent Roosevelt decided after con-
ference in Newport Harbor with Sec
rotary Dern that he could attend the
America Cup races, on the Carolina
front q dynamite bomb shattered the
surface calm.
The bomb was directed at the E. NJ.
Holt plaid mill at Burlington, N. C..
No one was injured, but the explosion
broke windows for so feet along the
mill front.
Previously, quiet had prevailed in
the Carolinas, as mills closed for the
weekend. Sixty units of National
Guardsmen remained at their posts in
the strike area.
More troops stood by in Georgia for
a call to strike duty. Two regiments
OF infantry and 81 special units Of the
Georgia National Guard and the ar
tillery regiment at Savannah were or
dered modified for possible duty.
Militia on Guard 1T Cartersville
The order affects about 5000 Off
GERS and men. Two companies Of Ma
tional Guardsmen took up strike duty
at Gainesville, Ga.
In other textile areas, weekend
holiday quiet prevailed, but North and
South, Guardsmen patrolled.
Nearly 1900 were on duty at Woon-
socket and Saylesyille, r. l., the scene
Of recent rioting in which three per-
sons were killed and more than 800 in
jured.
The international labor defense de-
manded the impeachment Of Cover
nor Theodore F. Green Of Rhode
Island.
In q telegram to the Rhode Island
legislature, the labor defense asserted
Governor Green had miSused his ex-
ecutive power for personal profit In
calling out the troops to break IL:
strike.
Ten companies Of the Connecticut
National Guard sood ready for emery
ency call.
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