Evening star., 1934-09-16
GEORGIA TO GUARD
Ill NON-STR|KERS
n TEXTILE MILLS
T lImadge Vows Protection
'or Fright to Work."
Militia Modified.
f. WORKER is KILLED;
AR0LINA MILL BOMBED
1It Eahon Joins German in Denial
Pledge Was Violated in
Walkout Call.

TIL, full force of the Georgia
II ilitia yesterday was thrown
b hind non-Striking textile
" lrkers after Gov. Talmadge
.. omised that "the right to
W 'rk in Georgia will be pro-
te ted" Two thousand Guards
nm were ordered to mobilize
20 morrow morning and 1,700
in re were ordered to stand by
10 mobilization. Twenty
1iv closed mills planned to
Up n.
A fol 1ler textile worker was killed
yesterday in indiscriminate
euufire at Aragon, Ga, and a
eis ct dynamite bomb blasted a
hole in the yard of a textile
mil at Burlington, N. G.
Thon rs F. Mcmahon, interna-
tiolll president of the United
Textile Workers of America,
struck back at N. R. A. Admin
iStrator Hugh S. Johnson for
his charge that labor leaders
hao violated pledge in call
ing the strike, and denied that
the walkout was political, after
Francis J. German, national
strike chairman, had de-
manded Johnson'S immediate
resigr alton.
BY the Associated Press.
Strike leaders yesterday demanded
the imme late resignation of Recovery
Administt ator Hugh S. johnson as the
great tex tile industrial conflict ap-
preached a crisis which may result
in the pc sonal intervention of PreSi-
dent Roo evelt.
Replyin, to Johnson's accusation
that uliioll officials called the strike in
violation # their pledged word, Fran
els ]. Go man, national strike chair
man, cha ged the N. r. A. head with
untruthfu ness and partiality to the
employers
He liza: demonstrated his utter un-
fitness tC hold public Office" said
German. I'VE demand that he resign
forthwith.
Thomas F. Mcmahon, president of
the Unite Textile Workers, against
denied tn accusation. At Pawtucket,
r. l., he eclared the N. r. A. leader
was lend avoring again to make it
appear II 1t this Is a strike against
the Cover 1ment"
SIX an Praises Johnson.
George A. Sloan, president of the
Cotton TIE tile Institute, praised John
son for definitely spiking propa-
ganda eff cti-'ely used in many mill
centers" /, the effect that the Gov
eminent nd the N. r. A. are sup
porting q id encouraging the textile
strike.
The we k md calm on the strike
front was pE lctuated, meanwhile, by
the explo dor of a dynamite bomb
which Shs tie ed windows for so feet
along the frJnt Of the E. M Holt
plaid mill a. Burlington, N. C. It
was like an earthquake" residents of
the town aaic.
President Ioosevelt put in at New
port, r. l., AID conferred with Secre-
tary Dern az Maj. Gen. Fox Conner
on the new subdued strike situation
in Rhode Is and. which had threat
ened earlier 10 bring a call for Fed
eral troors
The Chic Executive found the
State so 1la cid that shortly afterwaro
the yacht Nourmahal, on which he is
cruising, steamed out of Narragansett
Bay to spe 1d the late morning and
with the private fleet attending the
international yacht races.
Strike Front Calm.
The usual Saturday mill closings
brought general calm to the strike
front. t enabled both mill owners
and uni n leaders to prepare for a
critical leriod which both expect to
begin or Monday when the strike en-
ters its hird week.
AS on last Monday, the employers
are plar ming determined effort to
reopen { large number of closed mills
under he protection of National
Guard l nits, now on duty in a half
dozen S ates. Labor leaders promised
an unyi elding resistance to such a
move.
The conflict has developed into a
test Of laoor'S strength under the
N. r. A Virtually all national and
Internal onal unions are reported to
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