The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-01
100000 Cotton Gar.
ment Workers Ex-
pected to Strike Also
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau

WASHIN TON, D. c.,
August 81. - The rank and
file torrent of strike senti-
ment rushed on to another
victory today as the United
Textile CA. F. of L. COM
promise-minded special strike
committee dispatched the same
1870 Saturday night Geographic
strike order issued Yesterday to 6oo,-
600 cotton workers, to approximately
100000 enthusiastic wooden and
worsted workers in New England
and the South.
Workers in these sections of the
industry and in the silk and rayon
divisions have been peppering strike
headquarters with wires and letters
prodding their A F. of L. strike
leadership to action.
Strike Chairman Francis J. Cor
man issued the order following the
refusal Of Arthur Besse. Of the N.
R. A. Wool Code Authority, to ac-
cept the invitation of the former
for a peace conference. The silk
workers, German declared, will
probably be called out at the same
time if Peter Van Horn, chairman
of the N. r. A. Silk Code Authority.
takes a similar position.
With the issuance of the new or
der and the almost certainty that
the silk and rayon workers will be
affected, about 100000 will be in
volved.
Scores and scores of kilograms
and letters calling for strike action
are coming in all the time from
the silk. wooden and rayon work.
ers,' strike chairman Francis J.
German, otld the assembled re-
porters in his morning conference.
In the course of a telephone con-
versation put through from London
by the Manchester Evening News,
German, who left England at the
age Of thirteen. declared Were
looking for complete shutdown Of
the textile industry within the next
week" He described the stretchout
(speed-up) as "the most vicious con-
dition we have here
Reject United Front
Following the lead of President
Green of the A. F. Of L., German
coupled his rejection of the united
front proposal made yesterday by
the National Board Of the National
Textile Workers Union with provo
cative remarks tantamount to open
Endorsement of the fascist police
employer terror sweeping over the
country Asked to comment on the
NT.W. proposal for a conference
with the strike committee of the
UT.W. and the national officials Of
the U.T.W. of America on the basis
OF agreeing on common demands
and one united strike committee"
German replied brusquely:
I'm not interested. This is a
strike under the principles of the
U. S. government. No Communist
/ government is going to get into this
one. The National Textile Workers
is a Communist Union"
May I correct you on that?p your
correspondent asked.
NO"
Your statement is incorrect"
| 1t is apparent that the A. F. of L,
leaders, taking their cue from Cen
eral Johnson's and Green's speech
attacking the San Francisco gen.
eral strike, are moving towards
support of fascist attacks on mill
tant strikers.
Queried on the Washington press
reports of blackjacking Of workers
by Southern police officials, German
significantly avoided criticizing the
governments stand on such brutal
ity. He remarked calmly:
I'VE have lot of that. Most of
it is brought on by detective agen-
However, he became excited in
cies, thugs and the employers
describing his militant activities
against the Communists.
we have TO fight the Commu-
nists. We know they're going to
take advantage of the strike.
! We've always had to fight them"
/ DO you consider the Communist