SUNDAY CALM

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

SUNDAY CALM

FOR PERFECTING PLANS

UNION CLAIMS RESTATED

(Received September 3,1.10 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 2. Sunday calm existed, in the ■ textilo striko situation as union headquarters here perfectod their final plans and sent out last-minute instructions to tho various local unions to make the tio-up as effective as possible. It is now estimated that 600,000 operatives will quit their jobs, and it is said that union officials expoct 150,000 velvet, drapery, upholstery, and other types of workors^to strike during the .week. '

Union headquarters are flooded with telegrams from field workers reporting compliance with the strike order. Somedeclared that the mill operators are rocmithig' "thugs and scabs" in an offorfc to break the strike. The principal intimations of violeuco come from the Southern States in several of which tho militia aro prepared to mobilise.

Mr. Francis Gorman, chairman of the striko committee, reiterated the union demands from which he said he would not retreat:I —A thirty-hour, compared with the present forty-hour working week, with, no reduction in pay, recognition of tho union for collective bargaining, and tho Creation of an impartial board under the N.R.A. to settle disputes.