Evening star., 1934-08-30
COTTON TEXTILE STRIKE
Is ORDERED SATURDAY,
CALLING OUT 100000
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posal by the National Labor Relations
Board for a conference with union
leaders. From New York George A.
Sloan, head of the Cotton Textile In
stitute, told Chairman Lloyd Garrison
of the Labor Relations Board that the
| industry would not be Threatened
| into amending the code.
, The strike, endorced by President
William Green of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, is the greatest
numerically to confront the admin
istration with the exception of the
general strike in San Francisco. 1t
will effect more than 1000 cotton
mills and, if protracted, may have a
| serious effect upon hundreds of COM
munitieS in the industrial areas of
the Eastern Seaboard.
AS the strike deadline neared fears
increased that violence might mark
the walkout in Southern areas.
William Stanley, assistant to the
Attorney General, said today the
Justice Department had no intention
of sending agents into the strike CEN
ters. He said there was nothing be-
fore the department at this time to
. indicate such action would lie neces-
sary.
Garrison announced little later he
would confer with Sloan at 4:30 pm.
about the strike.
The board notified Sloan by tele-
gram last night it would be glad to
talk with him about means of avert
ing the walkout, after Sloan notified
Garrison the institute was unwilling
to discuss the strike with the board.
The Strike Committee of the United
Textile Workers said its formal order
would cripple factories from the Ca
madam border to the deep South.
The unions Executive Council ex-
poets to decide today whether to call
100000 silk, rayon and woolen work.
ers out at the same time. If a walk
out of those workers takes place it is
estimated more than 1000 900 persons,
counting workers and dependents, will
| be involved.
The manufacturers prepared to
| fight. Although some apparently
planned to shut their mills if a strike
is called, Sloan said the owners in gen.
eral purposed to keep operating. Deny
ing the workers want strike, he said
he had authoritative information that
| only 10 or Is per cent would walk out
unless intimidated.
Hints of violence were heard. Cor
( man, declaring the owners were hir-
| ing private detectives and fortifying
their plants. said:
1--WE are prepared for trickery and
violence. We have reports which in
dicate planned violence. 1 refer to re-
| ports from Our representatives about
| the stocking of arms and tear gas.
Private detectives also are lowering
over the field like vultures."
National Guard troops, with rifles in
hand, drove 200 pickets late yesterday
from the Lonsdale mill at Seneca,
S. c., where a strike has been in
progress 16 weeks.
! The negotiations for peace ended
unexpectedly yesterday The manu-
facturers turned down the invitations
CT the National Industrial Relations
Board to sit in on a round table
talk with union leaders today.
! President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor again
pledged full support to the strike in a
radio address last night, in which he
said the workers were protesting
against low wages, insecurity of en-
ployment and denial of collective bar
gaining In contrast to the Strike
Committees contention that the aver
age weekly wage is only $1O86 a week
employers contend that the N. r. A.
code has given employment and pur-
chasing power a tremendous boost.