Evening star., 1934-09-16
.M'MAHON DENIES
STRIKE POLITICAL
u. T. W. international Head
Answers Charge by
Gen. Johnson.
BY the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE, r. T., September is.
"A sizzling reply by Thomas F. Nc
Mahon, international president Of the
United Textile Workers Of America
to the charge Of Gen. Hugh s. john
son. N. r. A. administrator, that the
textile strike was political, featured
an otherwise uneventful day in the
general walkout in New England.
| Mcmahon, head of the organization
which called the strike, asserted that
II Johnson's motive in attacking him
had been to give comfort to the man
ufacturers, then Gen. Johnson's use
fulness is ended as an impartial ad-
ministrator of codes"
At the same time the likelihood OF
Intervention by Federal troops in the
Rhode Island situation, which seemed
imminent earlier in the week, was
further diminished.
Troops Offered on Thursday.
President Roosevelt, who on Thurs
day had offered to put such forces OF
the United States Army at the dis
posal of Gov. Theodore F. Green OF
| this State, as the Governor might
deem necessary, decided at Newport
| that the situation was now sufficiently
quiet to permit him to attend the
Americas Cup race.
The President discussed the situa-
ton with Secretary of War George
H. Dern and Maj. Gen. Fox Conner,
commander of the 1st Corps Area, and
then all three sailed to see the race.
The President declined to comment
on Johnson's speech.
A large crowd gathered at st. AIMS
Roman Catholic Church today for the
funeral of Jude Courtemanche, 19-
year-old striker slain in Thursdays
riot.
Tomorrow at Central Falls, Charles
Gorcynski, IS, the second victim of
the four days rioting, will be buried.
Mcmahon Denies Violation.
Mcmahon in assailing Gen. john
sons New York address denied he had
violated any agreement he had with
the N. r. A. administrator.
Instead, he charged, the word "un-
skilled" had been removed at the last
minute from literature relating to
working conditions. In negotiations
on the then pending cotton code, thus,
he asserted, allowing the minimum pay
scales to become the maximum in the
industry in all too many cases.
II took the position" the textile
leader said, that If the committee of
manufacturers could eliminate the
most important part to us in the estab-
lishment Of miniIna, could change
from 40 hours per week, two shifts, to
35 hours per week, two shifts, and
this I did"
Mcmahon further asserted that the
resentment of textile workers against
the treatment accorded their repre-
sentatives In Washington has become
such that johnson was seeking a
way out at the expense of organized
labor.
He characterized the strike as one
to elevate textile workers from "peon-
age to freedom" and to "drive poverty
from the home and bring back Amer
ican standards of living"
Little Hope for Justice"
when Gen. Johnson, if reports are
true" Mcmahon continued, "weeps for
George P. Sloan, chairman of the
Cotton Textile Institute, there Is very
little hope that the workers of the
mills will secure any semblance of
justice or fair treatment in the fu-
ture from any such board or code
authority with which Mr. Sloan is
connected because of this attitude on
the part of the general
Gen. johnson is trying to draw q
red herring across the trail when he
states that this strike Is political.
"He knows better, because If it was
he would have been able to show at
least one Of our many organizers in
the South or elsewhere who had used
mis- power in any way to make an
attack on the dominant party in con-
troll Of most of the States where the
textile strike is nearly 100 per cent
perfect.
Gen. johnson is endeavoring again
to make it appear that this Is a strike
against the Government. Does Gen.
johnson mean that the hundreds of
thousands of textile workers now out
on strike are disloyal to our flag, our
Government and our country.
"If he does, then I emphatically
resent it."
At the same time Ernest N. Hood,
president Of the National Association
of Cotton Manufacturers, upheld the
generals address, in a statement is
sued in Boston.
Gen. Johnson, in his address has
been answered by Francis j. Cor
man, leader of the textile strike
(committee) with accusations Of bad
faith" said Hood.
Gen. johnson pinned bad faith
on Mr.. German and put in the spot
light the real issues, backed by facts
underlying the textile strike.
Answers Demanded.
''Why doesn't Mr.. German answer
with facts and not with vituperation
and Misrepresentation the questions
which now have been put squarely up
to him?
"Was the agreement made by the
United Textile Workers, through
Thomas Mcmahon, its president, kept
or broken?
Were the signed agreements made