EVE OF STRIKE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 209, 4 September 1934, Page 5

EVE OF STRIKE

AMERICAN TIE-UP LIKELIHOOD OF VIOLENCE THE UNION'S DEMANDS (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright! WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Sunday calm existed in the textile . strike situation as union headquarters here perfected the final plans and sent out last-minute instructions to various I local unions to make the tie-up as i effective os possible. ; It now estimated that 600,000 ; operatives will quit their jobs. Head* ■ quarters said they expect 150.000 velvet, drapery, upholstery, and other • types of workers to strike.. During tho week union headquarters have been flooded with telegrams from field workers, reporting complir ance with the strike order. Some declared that the mill operators are recruiting “thugs and scabs” in an effort to break the strike. The principal intimations of violence come from the Southern. States, iu several o£ which the militia is prepared to mobilise. . I Mr. Francis Gorman, chairman of the strike committee, reiterated the union’s demands, from which he said they would not retreat. They include a 30-hour week compared with the present 40-hour w r eek, with no reduction in pay, recognition of the uaioa 1 for collective bargaining; aaid tha creation of an impartial board under the N.R.A. to settle disputes. PROBLEM OF RELIEF FIVE MILLION FAMILIES. TRA!DE FALLING OFF. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. A report by the President’s Executive Council to-day declared that 5,000,060 families, containing about 23,000 persons, must be provided with relief funds during tho coming w'inter at an unprecedented cost to the Federal Government. It was pointed out that the steadily increasing cost of living, now estimated to bo 20 per cent, above the low points of the depression, made more generous doles to the unemployed necessary. Cincidentul with this startling information, tho Commorco Department published the monthly survey showing unusual decline in nearly every field of business activity in July and early iu August with the employment payrolls off more than' the usual seasonal amount.

ROOSEVELT STOCK WANING ENORMOUS DEBT PILING WP. [ Per Press Association J AUCKLAND, Sep! The Rev. Dr. R. Macintyro, rnodeub* tor of the Presbyterian Church, Sydf ney, returning from a holiday Mr Canada, arrived by the Niagara. He the opinion that Preffc dent Roosevelt 's stock was going dowty Americans were getting alarmed at th< enormous debt piling up. It wa« aaij that President Roosevelt was mortgage ing the future to create an iDusion of wealth. Nevertheless, he though that President Roosevelt would save America from the disastrous crash which was threatening.