VAST TEXTILE STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 55, 3 September 1934, Page 9

VAST TEXTILE STRIKE

CONCILIATION FAILS

BOTH SIDES STAND FIRM

WASHINGTON,. September 1.

The general textile strike has been extended to includo 200,000 silk work-

: The last slender hope, that the strike would be avortod passed when Labour leaders, after listening to hours of argument, pleading and coaxing, emerged from tho offices of the National Labour Relations Board with the grim assertion that "the strike will go on."

As; practically all mills will bo closed during *the wookend, which extends through Monday, the legal holiday, "Labour Day," tho effectiveness of the strike will not be known until next week. Union loaders claim nearly 100 per cent, compliance from a momborship totalling about 450,000 cotton and testilo workers and 150,000 in each oi" the woollen and silk industries.

With several hundred thousand unemployed they claim that, about 1,000,000 are under tho strike order. The mills they hope to close includo 1281 cotton mills, 500 woollen mills, and 1000 silk mills.

Tho owners' spokesinon are making no specific claims, but hope that many mills will continuo in operation, some with an almost complete personnel. On tho other hand, many will voluntarily close as they are already'suffering from surplus stocks of finished goods. While the Employers' Association sout out a last-minute protest against the uso of Federal relief funds to succour tho strikers, union leaders countered with a demand that State and National Guard troops should not be allowed to use Federal equipment, meaning rifles, revolvers, machino-guns, ammuntion, etc., to suppress picketing. ' As tho mills will be closed through Monday no troublo is expected till Tuesday, when bouio violbnco is likely to result at those mills opening. !