The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-15

Green declared labor was fully confident of it's position.
 "The presidents Investigating board is better qualified to judge whether the strike is Justified than Johnson" he said. we await their report with confidence"
 Woll said Johnson's attack would not disturb the strike lead- ership.
 "I am confident they can and will answer Johnson. Despite John- sons attack on organized labor the labor movement will go on. am more disturbed, however, by the fact that Johnson, by his unwar- rantable utterances. and prejudic- ed intrusion Tn the textile situation has made for greater difficulties in composing existing differences"
 Violated Agreement
 Johnson declared in a speech at a MIRA rally in New York that the strike was called in violation of an agreement with him made when a previous strike threatened last June.
 If such agreements of organiz- ed labor are worth no more than this one,' he said, then that in- stitution is not such responsible instrumentality as can make con- tracts en which this country can agree"
 He asserted that the cotton tex tile industry was the. 'very last place in this country in which a strike should be ordered" citing unemployment of 10000 workers and increases of hourly wage rates up to 70 per cent.
 The f1areup between Johnson and the strike managers came az German issued a call to all organ ized workers to refuse to handle imports of textiles being brought in to replace products ordinarily | made in the closed textile mills. He | urged transport workers to stoI
 handling shipments of this kind. The attempt at embargo is di- rected at increasing economic pres. | sure in the direction of strike settlement. While textile stocks sufficient to last the nation for six ! weeks or more are at hand, con- tinuance of the strike will soon | bring pinch. German Is Determined German said his lines were hold | ing strong despite outbreaks all I along the textile front. He said decision on calling out 50,000 to 75,000 more allied workers was
 being held in abeyance. President Roosevelt watched the situation closely as he steamed toward the strike torn New Eng land area aboard the yacht Nour- mahal. He asked Secretary of War George Dern and Maj. Gen. Fox Connor to meet him at Newport, E. l.. today to discuss possible need of federal troops.
 This need seemed abating today. Rhode Island was fairly quiet and the state legislature adjourned
 without action. One fiareup oc- cured at Worcester, Mass, where 10 persons were arrested at mass meeting led by Ann Burlak, com munist ''red flame"
 Gov Theodore Francis Greens action in calling out the national guard in Rhode Island received the tacit approval of German who said he believed the executive was attempting to protect rights of strikers as well as property. Green said strike leaders themselves had
 urged use of the militia to replace
 hottie private mill guards. Add To Toll of Dead A new casualty in South Caro-
 lima was indirectly attributed to
 the strike adding to the toll of Ia | dead and scores seriously wounded
 George McGraw, mill watchman was shot to death at Gaffney, s. C..
 in a dispute growing out of the I strike.
 Georgia was added to the list ot
 i've states which have ordered out
 the national guard. Two companies | were sent to Gainesville where . | fiareup was feared. At nearby
 Rockmart four United Textile | non-union workers and seriously beaten.
 Five strikers were bayoneted by | national guardsmen at Burlington, N. C., and tear gas was used to | dispel demonstrators. A guards man was stabbed in another disor- Concord, N. C., and two women were injured in Atlanta.
 New England Quiet Providence, R. l., Sept. 15 - | (UP)-Week-e quiet settled over | the New England textile strike front today, ending at least tenn porarily rioting and sabotage in | Rhode Island mill centers where two were killed and scores wound ed in fighting between strike sym pathizers and national guardsmen. The militia backed by state and local police was in complete con trol at Woonsocket and Saylesville scenes of the most concerted fight ing. Police blocked off rowing squads of pickets from several