Evening star., 1934-09-07
CAROLINA STRIKE
SITUATION EASES
Militia on Duty as Rain
Slows Down Flying
Squadrons.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., September T.
A gentle rain and the bayonets Of halt
a hundred National Guard companies
cooled tangled nerves in the strike
torn CarolinaS today.
Union flying squadrons, for the most
part, observed a morning of rest after
three days of frenzied activity, during
which they closed approximately $50
textile mills and saw six Of their
number die before the guns of nom
sympathizers and officers at Honea
Path, S. G.
10000 Out in Two States.
The lull in the United Textile Work.
ers Unions campaign for complete
close-down of the industry found ap-
proximately 10000 workers idle, some
Of them strikers, some of them the
victims of force-outs. OF those out
of the mills, some 10000 were in
North Carolina and 10000 in South
Carolina. An accurate check was diff
ficult, as some mills re-opened under
National Guard protection, others
were closed by flying squadrons in
isolated sections and many OF the mills
remaining open worked with reduced
forces.
A report that a flying squadron
would seek to release Al pickets held
at Lincolnton for trespass caused
Guardsmen hastily to surround the
county jail there during the night,
but nothing developed.
In South Carolina's Horse Creek
Valley, where 3,400 workers have re-
manned peacefully at their posts
throughout the strike, a field howitzer
company of the 118th Infantry and
members of Battery F, 1l5th Field
Artillery, were called to duty after an
impending flying squadron visit was
rumored.
The total of strikers at Durham,
N. c., was boosted to approximately
$500 by a walkout of silk hosiery
workers of the Golden Belt Co., whose
textile workers walked out Tuesday.
Other sections were quiet. A flying
squadron which harrassed mills in
Central North Carolina yesterday
failed to reach Greensboro and Reids-
vile as threatened, and plants con-
tinued in operation.
State authorities kept anxious watch
at Spindale, N. c., throughout the
night after squadron of 5000 was re-
ported en- route to battle National
Guardsmen encamped before mills
which were reopening after flying
squadron visits, but the raid failed to
materialiZe.
Martial vaw RenuocfaH
While armed troops pitched camp
In dozens of mill communities, Gov
Blackwood of South Carolina said he
was seriously considering declaring
certain areas in state of tnsurrec-
ton" He said he had received many
requests for martial law. Action on
these requests, he said, would depend
upon further developments in the
strike zones.
North Carolina troops today had
been sent into nearly every sector
Of the strike front, and many mills,
which had previously closed down as
a precautionary measure prepared
to open under their protection.
Negotiations Dropped.
Hopes of ending strife in South
Carolina through o temporary truce
went glimmering when J. A. Frier,
president Of the Federation of Labor,
was advised by United Textile Work
ers headquarters in Washington to
drop negotiations with Gov. Black
wood on a peace plan submitted by the
Chief Executive.
While the South counted its toll
Of 10 dead, it also surveyed the in
roads made by the strike on its
normally employed textile workers. An
incomplete check showed that of ap-
proximately 100000 workers employed
in this section, more than half Of
them were idle because Of the strike.
Atlanta police arrested two women,
Leah Young, "a, and Annie Leathers,
20. They said strikers told them the
women were urging them to join the
Communist party. Several pieces of
Communist literature were found on
their person, police said.