Evening star., 1934-06-03
Order to 100000 for Walk
out Today ResCinded as
Truce Is Reached on Basis
of Federal Investigation.
ALL WORKERS. PROTESTS
TO GET FULL HEARING
N. R. A. Chief Assails 33 1850
Wage Increase Demand as
Promise Is Made for Study of
Scale, Hours and Working Con-
ditions in Entire Industry.
Nv the Associated presS

BY the Associated Press.
The Government has succeeded in
holding off another strike in major
industry. the textile business.
1t obtained last night, after days
of peace-making efforts, an agreement
between the management and the
workers to suspend all overt acts un-
til after detailed study by the N.
r. A. of the interlocked questions of
production and wages and hours.
A few minutes after Thomas F. Nc
Mahon, president of the United Tex
tile Workers of America. and George
A. Sloan. chairman of the cotton tex
tile code authority, with associates
had signed the agreement the work
erS' representatives telegraphed all
locals to rescind the strike order
which would have taken an estimated
100000 out tomorrow
Strike Right Retained.
The agreement. however, stipulated
that the compact in no way preju-
diced the right of labor to strike.
In addition to setting up fact-f1nd-
Ing machinery, the agreement brought
about by Hugh S. Johnson, recovery
administrator, gave to labor its re-
quest that it have voice in the
Labor Advisory Board and the cotton
textile code authority. A member of
the United Textile workers is to be
named to the Labor Advisory Board
and another delegated as labor ad-
wiser to Government members of the
code authority
johnson said one of the issues made
by the workers was IAN increase of
1919 per cent in the labor element of
the cost of cotton textiles"
Wage Demand Assailed.
LAS to wages" he said in a formal
statement which disclosed the plan
for study of that among other sub
jects, 1T is clear that no such vio-
lent increase as 1913 per cent in all
wage scales. if any, can be considered
at this time. The rise in the price of
cotton textiles has been one of the
chief consumer complaints"
The revised Industrial Relations
Board, augmented by added labor
representation, will combine with the
N. R. AS Division of Planning and
Research in making a study of the
following points:
What productive machine hours are
necessary to meet normal demand?
The report on this to be made within
10 days.
What increase, if any, in wage rates
Is possible? Report to be made in
IA days.
Have wage differentials above the
minimum been maintained? CThe
question of Northern and Southern
differentials has disturbed both the
industry and the workers) Report
to be made within 80 days.
Production to Be Studied.
What changes have taken place in
man-hour productivity?
The Division of Planning and Re-
search is to cooperate with the In
dustrial Relations Board in its study
OF the work load, involving the high
ly controverted system of stretch-out.
under which machine production for
worker is increased without a cor
responding pay increase.
Sloan, in a formal statement,
found satisfaction in retention of the
olueT OF the code authority calling
for 25 per cent reduction for each
productive machine during the next
three months which proponents of the
plan said was a move to prevent the
building up of big overstock and
equalize the industry's production.
The workers, in a statement by
Mcmahon, expressed general satisfac-
ton with the agreement.
The study, Mcmahon said, would
certainly result in exposure of evils
In the industry" He said it created
machinery for an unbiased investi-
CATION of conditions, including wages
and hours, machine load and code
violation
The textile workers chief said it
marked the beginning of new day
for cotton textile workers"