Evening star., 1934-09-04
bPCT. IGNORE
CALL TO STRIKE
Troops 0verrun by Pickets
at Carolina MiIIS-Ma.
= chine Guns Are Sent.
fCentinued From First Page.)

Paterson on whether they may strike.
The board, set UP under q labor con-
tract with the silk manufacturers,
may rule q strike of the Paterson
workers legitimate only when 40 per
cent Of the Nations silk looms have
been stopped by strike.
Five hundred pickets surrounded
two Erwin, N. c., mills and forced
q complete shutdown. Non-union
employees who appeared for work made
no attempt to pierce the picket lines.
Mill officials of New Bedford, Mass,
reported that IS plants were COM
pletely shut down, leaving only three
tire fabric plants, employing about
$500, operating.
Pickets Close Plant.
At Gastonia, N. c., hundreds of
pickets barred the entrance of $50
first-shift workers and forced a COM
plete shutdown Of the plant. ON
cials said it would remain closed.
At Aiken, S. c., it was estimated
that 3,400 textile workers of the eight
mills in the Horse Greek Valley Sec
ton reported for work today after q
Labor day holiday without any in
reference from union pickets. One
mill In the section, closed for months,
following strike, failed to open.
The Winnsboro, S. c., mills Of the
United States Rubber Co. operated
with reduced forces behind Gordon
of 40 or SO State constables, while
the town itself was tense from un-
confirmed reports that Negroes were
being imported to fill the places of
striking union workers. Observers
said no unusual group of Negroes had
been seen on mill property.
Lawrence Mills Operate.
In Lawrence, Mass, officials of
about IL plants said normal conditions
existed as the plants opened for work
Police said the usual number of work.
ers seemed to enter the plant.
A plant official at Kannapolis, N. c.,
said no evidence of the strike had
been seen there.
In the Philadelphia area a consid-
cradle number Of mills were operating,
although their personnel was appar-
emily curtailed. Conditions were
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picketing will be attempted In an
effort to increase the effectiveness Of
the strike.
MIL officials reported that all large
textile plants in Pawtucket, r. l., were
operating normally. Police said the
factories were not picketed and that
there was no disorder.
Union leaders said that the Adams,
Mass, plant of the Berkshire Fine
Spinning Association, Inc, employing
about 1890, was forced to close today
after l,500 of the morning shift
walked out after reporting for work.
The management of the Pequot
cotton mills, in Salem, Mass, said 95
per cent Of those employed on the
early shift reported for work. They
said 1850 were working when the
wheels began to turn.
Loomfixers Out.
About $50 employees, including
members of the loomfxers' union,
Local 80, U. T. w., did not enter the
plant. The management announced
it would not engage substitute
workers to take their places.
-Four cotton mills and 10 woolen
mills IN Lowell opened and mill off,
cials said that practically all en-
ployes reported, with the exception
Of 500 loom1xers. They said that if
the loomfixers remained out they
would force quick shutdown in the
plants in which they are employed,
including four large ones. Mill offi-
cials estimated approximately $4,000
reported for work.
Two plants in Nashua. N. H., en-
ploying about 5000 hands, opened, and
mill officials said all reported for work.
Police said there was no picketing
and that they would arrest out-of-
town picketers II they were brought
into the city. Horace Broulette, U. T.
w. organizer, disputed the claim of mill
officials and said that but half of the
employees of one plant reported for
work.
In Pawtucket, r. l., mill officials
reported that all large plants were
operating almost normally. Between
10000 and $4,000 are normally en-
ployed In the Pawtucket area. The
factories were not picketed, officials
said, and police said there were no
reports of disorder. Three of the
largest plants employ more than $500.
and all were reported as In operation.
The Berkshire Fine Spinning Co. in
Adams, employing about 1900, was
forced to close when about 1900 en-
gagged on the morning shift walked
out after they had reported for work.
In North Adams two cotton and two
woolen mills, employing about 1900,
were operating, mill officials said, but
the cotton mills are on a split shift
and but half their employees reported
this morning. There was no picketing.
In Woonsocket, r. l., where between
5000 and 5000 are normally employed
in woolen and worsted mills, all en-
ployes reported for work, mill officials
said. The only plant closed was the
Glenark Branch of the Uxbridge
worsted Co., one of the smaller plants,
where officials had previously posted
announcement it would close. No
plants were picketed, police said.
Reports from Concord, N. H., indi-
Gated that many workers were re-
naming at their looms throughout the
State. In Rochester, Cocheco Mill Off
cials reported 450 at work, the Wyan-
dotte Manufacturing Co. 200 and a
skeleton crew at the Granite Manu-
featuring Co. The Pacific Mills at
Dover reported $500 employed, the
Salmon Falls Mills, $50, and the Exter
Manufacturing Co., at Exter, $50.