Evening star., 1934-09-07
TEXTILE LEADERS
CONSENT TO MEET
MEDIATION BOARD
Conferences With German
and Sloan Are First
Move by Group.
IDLE INCREASE 10000
TO TOTAL OF $4,000
Secretary Perkins Is Confident
Roosevelt Appointees Can
Settle Walkout.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Both Francis J. German, chairman
Of the Textile Strike Committee, and
George A. Sloan. president of the
Cotton Textile Institute, agreed today
to meet President Roosevelt's new
Textile Strike Board within the next
six hours.
The conferences will mark the
boards first move to halt the huge
strike which has kept upward Of
100000 textile mill workers away
from their jobs this week.
German was to meet the board this
afternoon. Sloan was to come from
New York for a conference early this
evening. The board talked to him
early in the afternoon by long-dis-
tance telephone. Between the two
conferences, the board planned to see
Robert Bruere, chairman of the Cot
ton Textile Industrial Relations Board
Order Goes to Unions.
While the board was thus moving for
o settlement, a militantly worded
order went from strike headquarters
to all officers and members of local
unions, calling for concentration on
remaining weak spots" in the textile
area.
It informed the union ranks that
1--WE shall give the Mediation Board
all the information we possess, but
we shall not bulge an inch from our
position that the strike must end in
victory"
Approximately $4,000 textile work.
ers were idle today, an Independent
survey showed. Although some mills
that had been closed opened today
under National Guard protection, 9TH
ers were closed by their owners.
Todays total represents an increase
of around 10000 in the number of
idle.
Secretary Perkins expressed conf
dence today that the textile strike
board would be able to settle the huge
walkout
81 have confidence that this board
Is going to find way out" the
Labor Department head said after
comforting with the three men Presi-
dent Roosevelt named to attempt to
halt the strike.
Miss Perkins added she saw nothing
trreconcilable In the positions Of the
strikers and the employers.
AS soon as they left the Secretary's
office, the new board members for
the first time went to their own
headquarters.
Conferences Planned.
Swinging quickly into action, they
said they expected to have several
conferences with those directly con-
cerned with the strike today.
Miss Perkins said the boards first
task would be to hear the charges
and counter-charges" of each side.
Miss Perkins, questioned by news
paper men, declined to comment on
the question of whether strikers should
get Federal relief further than to say
that she did not think the Govern
ment had ever financed or supported
o strike, and that the number of strik-
ers fed from relief funds had been
very small.
Strike leaders said q decision on
adding workers in the rayon, syn
thetic yarn, dyeing, hosiery and other
miscellaneous divisions to the general
textile strike would be made at a Sc
ries Of conferences over the week end.
In New York Peter Van Horn,
president of the National Federation
of Textiles and chairman of the Silk
Textile Code Authority, expressed the
opinion that if protection could be
obtained for the industry all possi-
bilities of the success of the strike
would be removed by Monday.
THE mills will reopen Monday or
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