The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-30
Million
WOrkers
Involved
German and Garrison
COncede That Mass
Demand Wins
BY SEYMOUR WALDMAN
DAILY Worker Washington Bureas)

WASHINGTON, D. c.,
Aug. %. - The tremendous
mass strike sentiment which
has Numbered into the United
Textile Workers special strike
headquarters here for nearly
two weeks won out today as
both the delay-minded German A.
F. of L. strike leadership and
Lloyd Garrison, chairman Of the
National Labor Relations Board,
conceded the certainty of the Ma
tional Cotton Textile strike starting
on September l, the scheduled
deadline.
Nov the air is clear. The cotton
textile mill owners have definitely
and finally refused to meet in con-
ference with u.s." Francis J. Cor
man, chairman of the strike COM
mittee, informed reporters this
afternoon. The strike will come"
he said.
The Executive Committee of the
U. T. w. is to meet tomorrow morn
ing to decide upon the zero strike
hour and also upon the spproxi-
mate time for calling out the silk.
rayon and wooden workers. "A silk
strike is inevitable, Elizabeth Nord
of the A. F. of L. Silk Workers
remarked.
[The Cotton Textile Institute
today refused to confer with the
National Labor Relations Board
and the U. T. w. leaders. In
long statement today, issued in
New York, George A. Sloan, chair
man Of the Cotton Textile Code
Authority (which is identical in
membership with the instituted
attacked the strike and refused to
negotiated
My candid opinion at this hour
is that the strike will begin at the
hour we have set and that it will
be effective and victorious" Cor
man declared this morning. In
discussing yesterdays comprehen-
sive U, T. w. Southern report
warning that the workers will not
tolerate any further delay" Cor
man told your correspondent that
we're getting the same sentiment
from all over the country"
Garrison, while waiting for word
from George Sloan, President of the
Manufacturers Cotton Textile In
stitute, seemed completely resigned
to the success of the rank and files
pressure in forcing the calling of
the big strike. He declared that
1T is unlikely that the strike can
be averted."
Other developments today in the
maturing strike struggle were:
German announced that official
draft Of the order which will make
effective a strike of 10000 cotton
textile workers is ready to 60 by
telegraph to more than 500 local
unions Another 10000 textile
workers in the silk, wooden. rayon
and worsted textile industry have
voted to strike, leaving the date up
to their leaders. A cotton walk
out will inevitably bring out the
other branches of the industry.
Garrison intimated the proba-
bility that an investigation COM
raittee Of three members, who will
cooperate" with the Department
of Labor and the N. r. A., will be
appointed as soon after September
as possible by him and other
administration leaders to settle"
the strike. He emphasized we
have no intention of Withdrawing
He answered. NO thanks" when
asked whether he had any opin-
ion on the use of armed troops
against the textile strikers.
Strike headquarters received
$4,000 wage envelopes from workers
employed in Southern mills giving
statistical proof OF the exploitation
legalized by the N. r. A. code.
/ - J ~ n