U.S. A. MILLS-STRIKE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1934, Page 7

U.S. A. MILLS-STRIKE

I —♦ — FIRST DAY’S HAPPENINGS CONFLICTING CLAIMS [BY OABLE —PBESB ABBN. —COPYRIGHT.] WASHINGTON, September 3. The first day’s test in the gigantic 5 general textile workers’ strike has * been indecisive, as practically all of - the mills in the northern and eastern 1 section have remained closed for Labour Day, while the reports from ! the southern sections widely vary. ' For example, the Union declared that at least half of the two hundred thousand workers in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, have walked out, thus affecting fifty per cent of the tie-up, which the Union expect to increase to 90 per cent within this week as their “flying squads” of pickets reach full efficiency. On the contrary, the officials of the Cotton Textile Code Authority say that nineteen mills were closed today with thirty-one thousand strikers. They however, admit that a big test will come to-morrow, when the great mills of the New England States will attempt to open. IN CAROLINA. NEW YORK, September 3. The “New York Times’s” correspondent at Charlotte, in North Carolina, reports that between sixty-five and seventy-five thousand operatives have, struck in that district, and that about an equal number are reported as at work, but many were driven from the looms during the day by militant pickets. However, there have only been a few cases of violence reported. The most serious one occurred in a remote locality called King’s Mountain, where fifteen hundred strikers from neighbouring towns invaded a mill and forced it to close.

. QUARTER-MILLION WORKING. (Received September 5, 11 a.m.) NEW YuRK, September 4. The first day of the textile strike was generally quiet. There were some disorders in Georgia and North Carolina. Workers generally in Massachusetts have not obeyed the order. George A. Sloan, President of the cotton textile institute made a statement: “The latest figures now available indicate that at least a quarter of a million employees are working.” HOOVER ON LIBERTIES. PHILADELPHIA, September 3. Condemning the policies of President Roosevelt’s administration, which' he inferentially labels “Will of the Wisps,” Mr Herbert Hoover in the current issue of the “Saturday Evening Post,” declares: “The people of the United States are faced with the issue of human liberty.” The former President, in his first discussion of political questions since he left White House, decries economic regimentation. He says: “The whole thesis behind the programme is the very theory that man is but a power of the State. It is a usurpation of the primary liberties of man by the Government. It is a vast shift from the American concept of human rights, which even a Government may not infringe, to those social philosophies where men are wholly subjective to the State. It is vast casualty to liberty if it shall be continued.” The article makes no mention by name of President’ Roosevelt, but it includes a critical digest of the powers granted to President Roosevelt, and assails the un-American attitude of Congress in granting these powers. CANADIAN MINIMUM WAGE TORONTO, September 4. Proposing a minimum wage in all industries, Mr. Arthur Roebuck, Ontario Attorney General is calling a conference of all provinces. He plans to secure an agreement, and thereby force the hands of the Dominion Government, which has refused to legislate regarding codes. All female workers have a Minimum Wage Act in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec.