AMERICAN STRIKES

Evening Star, Issue 22684, 25 June 1937, Page 9

AMERICAN STRIKES

LABOUR HOLIDAY CALLED EXODUS OF WORKERS FROM PLANTS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, June 22. A message from Warren says that the Committee for Industrial Organisation has called a Labour holiday as a protest against the injunction granted on June 21. Six thousand men and women walked out of 17 plants. A political twist was given to the situation when Governor Earle, who has been frequently mentioned as a Democratic nominee for the Presidency, withdrew from consideration of nomination in a statement to-day, in which he advocated a third term for President Roosevelt. “ THREAT TO DEMOCRACY ” MR GIRDLER DENOUNCES C. 1.0. WASHINGTON, June 24. (Received June 25, at 11 a.m.) Mr Girdler, testifying before the Senate Committee, alleged that the C. 1.0. denies free American citizens the right to work and encourages and promotes violence and disregard of law, and is associated with Communism, many of its leaders and organisers being avowed Communists. “ The C. 1.0. keeps contracts only when convenient for it,” he said. “The C. 1.0. constitutes the most dangerous threat to the preservation of democracy in the United States. ”- A message from Warren states that the C. 1.0. declared the Labour holiday had ended, but threatened an even more general walk-out in the event of further trouble. Several factories declined, however, to take back the returned workers, declaring a lock-out land charging the C. 1.0. with bad faith. [A message published on Wednesday read: The first ruling by the federal Court on a “ sit-down ” strike has been issued by the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia. It declares it illegal and orders the strikers to vacate a hosiery mill seized on May 6. The seizure is now declared criminal and the union is held to be a violator of the Sherman Act on the ground that it restrained interstate commerce.]