Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-09-27
REPORT DUE TODAY
ON TEXTILE PEACE
Sloan Confers on Issues
With President-Board
Wins German Support.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt conferred at
length today with George A. Sloan,
president of the Cotton Textile 1nstl-
tute, who announced report would
be made late today by the code
authority on the terms of settlement
of the recent textile strike.
Sloan said the report would deal
with questions before the board named
Yesterday by the President to arbi-
trate the issues between labor ana
employers in the huge industry.
He said the Cotton Code Authority
had Just completed two-day session
in New York and as soon as the re-
port was compiled, late today II
would be released.
Declines to Comment.
Sloan declined to comment on MS
discussion with the President ana
withheld anv further comment until
the code authority report was made
public.
Earlier. Francis J. German, chair
man of the Strike Committee, calleo
upon workers to have confidence III
the new board and to withhold strike
action pending its findings.
when the President appointed the
Textile Inquiry Board" German said,
with Gov. Winant. Raymond 1nger-
soil and Marion Smith as its members,
we Immediately announced that our
organization had confidence in the
Presidents choice and the personnel OF
the board. The report of this board
and the recommendations made to the
President received our whole-hearteo
approval.
I'VE we're notified last night by the
White House that the President had
appointed the textile board in an ex-
ecutive order. We again repeat our
confidence in the Presidents choice
and in the personnel of the new board. y
The boards personnel-ldentlcal
with the membership OF the Steel
Labor Boards: Walter P. Stacy,
chief Justice of the North Carolina
Supreme Court, chairman; Rear Ad-
miral Henry A. Wiley, retired, and
James Mullenbach, noted Chicago
labor arbitrator.
Seeking to settle all disputes that
tore the industry, the board is en-
powered to investigate any collective
bargaining complaints and refer its
findings ito proper governmental
agencies for approval" to act as arbi-
traitors and to hold secret elections
for collective bargaining.
Based on Winant Findings.
The appointment of the board fol-
lows a recommendation made by the
Winant Mediation Committee, whose
findings led the United Textile Work
ers to call off the strike.
The President also directed the
Bureau of Labor statistics to study
hours, earnings and conditions in the
industry and ordered the Federal
Trade Commission to report on labor
costs. profits and investments. The
commission must determine whether
wage increases are justified under
prevailing conditions.
Justice Stacy is to serve only
through the boards formative period,
or about two weeks. During that time
he will act as chairman, as he has
on the Steel Board. He has held posi-
tons on a number of arbitration
boards named to settle labor difficult
ties on various railroads.
Admiral Wiley also has seen extern
sive service in settling labor disputes
on the Nations transportation Sys-
TEN. He is a graduate of the Naval
Academy and became commander of
the United fleet with the temporary
rank of admiral in 1927. He retired
from the Navy in 1929.
Mullenbach has behind him long
career as a labor arbitrator, beginning
in that capacity in correction with
clothing trade controversies in Chi
cago III 1912. He is a former member
of that city's Board of Education. In
addition to holding a place on the
Steel Labor Board, he is member of
the Petroleum Labor Policy Board.
Mr.. Roosevelt's executive order es-
tablishing the Textile Labor Board and
allocating $4,000 for expenses author
lied it to pursue the following course:
ITO create, utilize or exercise its
powers through such regional or spe-
Cial agents or agencies as it may deem
necessary to carry out its functions;
and
To exercise all the powers provided
in Public Resolution A, Seventy-third
Congress, for a Qabor) board estab-
llshed under said resolution; and
Can Hold Hearings.
"On its own motion or on complaint
of any party affected, to investigate,
hold hearings on, and make findings
of fact as to any alleged violation of
Section IA of the national industrial
recovery act and such part of any
code of fair competition or agreement
as Incorporates said section, and, if
necessary, to refer such findings, with
recommendations, to proper govern
mental agencies for appropriate &C.
ton: and
Upon request of the parties to a
labor dispute, to act as a Board OF
Voluntary Arbitration or to appoint a
person or agency for such voluntary
arbitration; and
ITO exercise such powers as may be
conferred upon it by any code OF fair
competition"
Resolution A. to which the Presi-
dent referred, authorized the appoint
ment of such boards to settle labor
disputes. Authority was given for them
to direct the holding of secret cleo
tons when employers refused to
recognize the right of a particular
union to speak for their employees, or
when there was dispute between two
or more unions as to which should be