COTTON STRIKE IN AMERICA

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21257, 31 August 1934, Page 11

COTTON STRIKE IN AMERICA

WALKOUT APPEARS INEVITABLE ARBITRATION RE FL" SE!) 13Y employers GARMENT INIMSTKI DEFIES PRESIDENT .t. t;.l ;:u r : u• i ■*— r * *• •*• >*• - (Received August 30. C.lop.m > WASHINGTON. August 29. The temporary paralysis ot the United States cotton textile industry became seemingly inevitable last night, when efforts to avert the general strike collapsed. The textile manufacturers rejected the Federal Government's olfer to all end a peace meeting here with labour leaders. The strike committee at once prepared to send out before noon tomorrow formal order? for the walkout of nearly 500,000 workers. Work in cotton textile mills will probably cease on Friday night, for the strike call is likely to be for Tuesday morning, the first working day after (he Labour Day week-end. Union leaders expressed the hope that the strike would be orderly, but they alleged that the operators were importing strike-breakers and private officers in large hi rubers, apparently in anticipation ot violence. An upheaval is also ihreatened m another great industry, for the eotton garment manufaeiurers have defied a Presidential order calling tor a 36 instead of a -10-hour week, without. decreased pay, for 200.000 ernplovces. and the workers in the industry are threatening a general strike unless th:; order is obe.ved on October 1, when it becomes effective.