The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
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sounding Cotton Textile Institute,
began conferences with President
RooseveIt's banker dominated Win
ant inquiry" textile board.
Should arbitration fall through, it
is generally expected here that
United Textile Workers "a. F. of L.
Strike Chairman Francis J. Cor
man and the mill operators will
move their conferences to the Presi-
dents Hyde Park estate. a proce-
dure to which German is not unre-
ceptive.
The board will hear the story of
practical mill operators instead of
simply hearing from the Cotton
Textile Institute" William Lawson,
recent NRA publicity head, who
is now official assistant to Sloan, in
formed reporters as the trigger fin
gered mill magnates entered Win
ants headquarters.
Owners May Accept German Plan
A source close to the mill oper-
ators informed your correspondent
today that the owners probably
would accept Germans arbitration
proposal since they (the employ
ers) have nothing to lose under
such program
This arbitration proposal prom
ises that the U. T. w. will accept
any decision the Winant Board sees
fit to render German insists that
his strike committee, subject to the
approval of the U. T. w. Executive
Council, do not have to submit an
arbitration agreement to the vote
of the general union membership.
New "Stretch-out Board"
This source believed that the
Board would throw out She discred-
tied N.R.A. Bruere Cotton Textile
Industrial Relations Board and sub
stitute for it some sort of Stretch
out board" which would act speed
ily' on workers complaints. In
other words, variation of the
automobile strike sell-out formula
is brewing. He declared also, and
emphatically, that the employers
would make it clear to the Win
ant Board that they would not rec
ognize the U. T. w. as such.
The capital is filled with arbitra-
ton talk and expectancy Of an ar
bitration settlement by the end of
the week, despite Germans declara-
ton this morning that "an extern
sion beyond six o'clock this evening
of the "a hour arbitration proposal
is absolutely out Of the question. :"
German said last night that an
other "a hour extension of his
"ultimatum" would be granted if
the board needed more time to hear
testimony.
Strikers Hold Lines
In the meantime, the strike-eager
workers not only are holding their
lines, but actually are strengthen
ing them, according to official U. T.
w, announcements. Reports from
the whole strike front this morning
show stronger lines than yester-
day." German declared. "As near
as we can figure out there were
100000 last night" he replied to the
many inquiries for estimates Of
those out on strike. THESE figures
canno5 be called official, since Cor
man changes them frequently and
more workers swell the strike total
almost hourly as successive mills
are closed-Editor
This is perhaps the most critical
day of the textile strike and by
night we shall know whether we
must carry the battle to conclu-
sion by stoppage of work until man
agements can stand it no longer,
German declared in the opening
sentence of his morning release.
Asked whether the Federal gov
eminent had replied to his call for
Federal troops to protect our strik-
ers," German answered mot a word
received on Federal troops" How
ever, he exhibited his growing con-
ciliatory attitude by characterizing
the National Guardsmen, whose
guns have played the traditional
American strike-breaking role, as
nervous guardsmen." This phrase
recalls Secretary of Labor Perkins
description of the U. S. Steel Cor
poration's gun-toting Ambridge,
Pennsylvania, burgess as a nervous
burgess" German said: 1.-THE day
opened with a flood Of reports of as
saults upon strikers. From almost
the entire strike area we have re-
ports of strikers shot, strikers
beaten, strikers cut by bayonets in
the hand of nervous guardsmen."