THE GREAT STRIKE

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1934, Page 10

THE GREAT STRIKE

U.S. TEXTILE INDUSTRY

THOUSANDS OUT IN SOUTH

LABOUR DAY IX NORTH

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(Received September 4, 2 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, September 3,

The first day's test of the gigantic general textile strike was indecisive, as practically all the mills on the Northern and Eastern section remained closed on Labour Day, while reports from the Southern sections vary widely. For example, the union declared that at least half of 200,000 workers in the States of North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama had walked out, effecting a 50 per cent, tie-up, which the strike leaders expect to increase to 90 per cent, within a week, as "flying squads" of pickets reach full efficiency. On the contrary, officials of the cotton and textile code authority say that nineteen mills closed with 31,000 strikers. They admit the big test will como tomorrow when the great mills of the New England States attempt to open.

The "New York Times" correspondent at Charlotte, North Carolina, reports that between 05,000 and 75,000 operatives struck in that district. About an equal number reported for work, but many were driven from looms during the day by militant pickets. However, only in a few eases was violence reported." The most _ serious cases occurred in a remote locality called King's Mountain, where 1500 strikers from neighbouring towns invaded the mill and forced it. to close.