Evening star., 1934-09-16
GEORGIA TO GUARD.
ALL NON-STRKERS.
.Talmadge Vows Protection
for Fright to Work."
1000 Modified.
CONTINUED From First Page.)

t1ODJuluCo TTOkl Ehst Z dSCsJ
be dipping into their treasures to as
sist the textile strikers. The mill own
ers, meanwhile, have the unqualified
support of other great industries.
The Presidential Mediation Board,
headed by Gov. John C. Winant
of New Hampshire, has found it i'm
possible to obtain an agreement for
arbitration Of the controversy. Both
the opposing factions have predicted,
consequently, long, hard struggle.
The board is still at work. But in
the light of its inability to end the
conflict, President Roosevelt is ex-
pected by many to take personal
charge Of the situation at the next
violent outbreak.
Speech Began Dispute.
He was understood to have gone to
Rhode Island ready to do so.
The controversy between German
and johnson began with speech the
general made last night before a meet
ing of N. r. A. code authorities in New
York. In it he said:
THE present strike Is an absolute
violation of an understanding between
Thomas F. Mcmahon president of
the United Textile Workers) and my
self,
IF such agreements Of organized
labor are worth no more than this,
then that institution is not such a re-
sponsible instrumentality as can make
contracts on which this country can
rely"
II don't like to say that Gen. john
son lied last night in his attack upon
the United Textile Workers." Cor
man answered, "but I will say that
b. did not tell the truth
johnson himself broke the agree
1nent of June 2, German contended,
asserting that the first clause of that
compact stipulated that the agree
lnent should not prejudice the right
10 strike.
The agreement of last June ended
% threatened general textile walkout.
Under it, N r. AS research and
planning board was to study and re-
port on hours, wages, differentials,
while a committee under the code au-
thority was to compile a report on
"the stretchout." The agreement
placed time limitations upon the COM
rletion Of each report.
Report Two Weeks Late.
"The report on wages was two
weeks late" German said. "It held
there could be no increase in wages
except for possible individual adjust
inents upward.
THE report on differentials, which
means differentials between minimum
.ates and the rates for skilled workers,
has not been made yet. We don't
Enow why. And as for the stretchout,
The Bruere boards utter failure on
that Is one of the most glaring of all
N. r. A. failures
Now, remember, that Gen. john
son Is member Of the Cotton Textile
.,ode Authority. So far as we know
ne has never attended q meeting Of
that body. But he is responsible az
member as well as N. r. A. ad-
ininistrator.
IN any event, he has sat idly by
while the textile workers were being
slowly strangled to death. Presum-
ibly he feels that he must stand by
the employers, who are his associates
on the Code Authority. but that is
not our conception of the duties Of a
public official.
"McMahon Kept His Word"
Gen. johnson attacked President
Thomas r. Mcmahon of the United
Textile Workers, charging that Presi-
tlent Mcmahon did not keep his word.
President Mcmahon kept his word
and battled for the textile workers,
not against them, as johnson has
cone.
Gen. johnson Is an employer. He
has the employer mind and the Army
mind He thinks in terms of troops,
Of regiments, of subordinates and
robots Now as to the agreement of
June 2, what want to make clear is
that johnson himself was the violator
Of that agreement.
let the general come and look at
the thousands of pay envelopes in our
ofice-pay envelopes out Of which
families have had to live while the
general summed himself and cooked up
this miserable attack on U.s." d.