Evening star., 1934-09-04
Troops Guard
Employees in
Carolina.
MACHINE GUNS
SENT TO MILL
Auto Of Office
Force Attacked
at Macon.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An estimated 200, 900 textile workers
seemed today to have obeyed union
order for q general strike to make
650,000 workers idle in % States.
The exact number was a matter of
dispute between unions aid employers
as both sides claimed the victory IL
todays test after the first skirn.ishes
yesterday on the Labor day holiday.
Francis j. German, chairman Of
the Strike Committee o. the United
Textile Workers of America, hailed
the strike as tremendous success"
At Greer, S. c., National Guards
men and deputies armed with ma
chine guns protected the noon shift
as 1t reported for work at the Victor
Mill. Minor disorders about the
troop-guarded mill this morning led
to bringing reinforcements from
Spartanburg and from Lyman, where
other guardsmen were on duty, but no
untoward incident developed.
Invade Plant.
The Hanover Mill in Gastonia
locked its doors against the strikers
flying squadron" only to have them
forced open. Squadsmen pulled
switches, unbelted machines and
ordered workers from their posts.
The squadron was gaining strength
at every plant visited and leaders pre-
dicted it would number 1000 by mid
afternoon.
The union made large gains today
at Durham, N. c., where 4,500 walked
out Of seven plants, including the
Durham Hosiery Mills, which did not
come under the strike call
Showing the wide range of figures
from the opposing groups, the strike
director for New England asserted
that $4,000 out of $4,000 workers in
Rhode Island we're out on strike and
SO per cent of the $4,000 in Connec-
ticut.
so Per Cent in Carolinas.
Reports from the South indicate
that the strike was so per cent effec-
tive among the 10000 employees OF
the Carolinas.
OF Alabama's 10000 textile workers,
5000 were estimated to be on strike.
Unofficial survey in Pennsylvania
placed the number made idle by the
strike at 10000 out of total of 100,-
600 employees
In New Jersey, only 800 out of the
10000 silk workers we're said to be
on strike, while in the Cohoes, N. Y,
center, the number was even smaller
Partial reports from Georgia's 172
textile and rayon mills indicated that
$1,000 of the States 10000 workers
in the industry had obeyed the strike
call.
In Macon, Ga, fist fights were nu-
merous; there were several arrests and
many threats of warrants. One au-
tomobile load of mill Office workers
was overturned when it encountered
q picket line.
Pickets Kept Moving.
At Fall River, Mass, all mills
the gates kept pickets moving.
Approximately 95 per cent of the
early shift workers in Salem, Mass,
were at work today. Mill officials said
they would not hire substitutes to take
the place of striking workers.
Mill officials at Nashua, NJ H., said
that practically all employees reported
for work when the mills opened.
In Lowell, Mass, police reported
that practically the entire working
forces of cotton and 10 wooden and
worsted mills, employing $4,000 men,
reported for work when the mill gates
opened.
Biggest Mill Closes.
The Amoskeag Co. at Manchester,
N. H., the largest single mill in the
country, announced a shut down and
did not give strikers chance to re-
fuse to work.
nounced that they were ready ito
picket to a standstill" any mill that
attempted to operate. Orders were
given to eject forcibly Communist
agitators who have openly avowed
their intention of Seizing the strike
as an opportunity to increase their
power.
Police departments of New England
expressing fear of violence, have Or
Cancelled for members of their forces
The entire New England area nor
mally employs more than 233 900 cot
ton, wool, silk and rayon workers.
Thirty thousand silk workers in the
Paterson, N. j., area went to work as
usual today, awaiting a ruling from
the Industrial Relations Board of
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