PEACE SIGNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 226, 24 September 1934, Page 7

PEACE SIGNED.

AMERICAN STRIKE.

Textile Workers Instructed to Resume To-day. DEMANDS NOT GRANTED. United P.A.-Electric Telegraph-Copyright) WASHINGTON, September 23. The United Textile Workers yesterday ordered an end to the textile strike and instructed the employees to return to the mills 011 Monday morning. The unions concerned and the employers have accepted a peace proposal advanced by President Roosevelt. It is believed that virtually all the strikers will comply with the order to resume work, although a few insurgent groups in the siik industry threaten to continue the strike. The President's compromise provides that all the strikers be reinstated without discrimination, and that a new Labour Relations Board be created to mediate on wages, hours and working conditions. This board will be completely detached from the N.K.A. The compromise is hailed as a union victory because the regulations provided by the N.K.A. have not been satisfactory to them. Union leaders are elated over the removal of labour disputes from the jurisdiction of the N.K.A. and their sworn enemy, General Hugh Johnson. Although the settlement plan has granted none of the immediate demands upon which the strike was based the union leaders regard it as having tremendous advantages for labour, The new board will comprise one representative each of the employers and employees and one impartial member.

The textile strike in the United States was begun at midnight on September 1. It involved hundreds of thousands of workers. The cotton textile unions demanded a complete revision of the N.R.A. code, the granting of fewer hours of work and higher wages. The employers insisted that,' with raw cotton prices higher and sale 6 in a slump, the demands could not be met.

The strike lias been characterised by violence in various centres, and 111 fatalities were reported to have occurred in clashes between pickets on the one hand and troops and police on the other. Numerous people were injured.

SHOT IN ESCAPE. Dillinger's Ruse Fails for Followers. WARDERS AND MOCK PISTOL. NEW YORK, September 23. Charles Makley and Harry Pierpont, two members of John Dillinger's pang, while awaiting execution of the death sentence in the Ohio State prison at Columbus, were thwarted in a bold attempt to escape. Makley was shot and mortally wounded, and Pierpont was seriously injured by warders. The prisoners attempted to copy the wooden gun tactics of liillinger, who used such a device to escape from Crown Point gaol, Indiana. They made crude imitation revolvers out of soap, and attempted to bluff their way out of their cells.- The warders, however, were prepared for such a ruse and quickly prevented the attempt to escape.