Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1934 — Page 2

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TEXTILE STRIKE OUTGROWTH OF MACHINE ERA ‘51,000.000-A-Day’ Walk Out Directly Traceable to Overproduction. By pres* NEW YORK. Aug 28—Behind decision of the United Textile Workers of America to call a ’ million-dollar-a-day" strike. Involving 400000 tc 640.000 workers in from 1.150 to 3.300 mills from Maine to Alabama. lie* the story of a supermechanized industry, hindered by overproduction and the competition of cheap laobr. The strike cost in wages is estimated roughly at $1,000,000 a day, if effective. The trouble is older than the 1929 debacle that brought its difficulties to a head, or the NRA which sought to correct them. It parallels the growth of the machine age Direct cause of the strike is a deadlock over the powerful union's demand that employers raise wages, lower hours, cure the evils of the "stretch-out." and adhere faithfully to the letter of controversial section 7 of the NRA. which provides for labor the right to bargain collectively. Violations Are Charged This section, the unionists charge, is being violated by mill owners country-wide. Employers, on the other hand, say they have observed the NRA. The cotton textile industry was the first to codify under NRA. Wages were raised to sl3 a week minimum for the north; Sl2 for the south. Work hours of fifty-four to seventy were reduced to forty. Child labor was abolished. Union's claim that the sl2-813 minimum has been reduced to $9$9 75 is answered by the 25 per cent production curtailment ordered twice within a year by the code authority. While employers point to the fact that the textile industry never before enjoyed a forty-hour week, workers charge the machine load had been increased to the point where the average man is doing more work an hour than ever before. Labor demanded a thirty-hour week to provide more employment; capital reported insufficient work for the thousands already on pay rolls. Production Is Curtailed Production, under NRA. first increased, then was ordered curtailed for several months. Continued apathy in the market brought the second curtailment order last June 4. Younger union members demanded a nation-wide strike. Older heads of the union, which claims to represent 200.000 workers in the cotton textile branch alone, refused. The wiseness of their counsel was borne out when mill owners indicated that business conditions would make the enforced shutdown most welcome. Subsequently, the now famous report of Leon Henderson, of the Russell Sage Foundation, on the cotton textile industry was released. It contended that, "under existing conditions there is no factual or statistical basis for any general increase in cotton textile code wage rates.” The report claimed textile workers enjoyed a 12 per cent increase in purchasing power over 1929. It was denounced as •’misleading" by union officials, who declared the statement was predicated upon higher wages than the industry received. ‘Employment l'p 40 Per Cent* Chairman George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Authority, in an address, claimed: A 40 per cent increase in employment between August, 1933, and May. 1934. as compared with the similar pre-code period. The claims left union leaders and the rank and file in anything but a pacific frame of mind. The union, announcing it was bolstered by 500 new locals and 100,000 or more new members, convened in New York early in August to decide upon a strike. Southern delegations. led by the group from Alabama. where a cotton textile strike was a month old, demanded sympathetic action. “Now Is Time for Action" Leaders, prophesying that 600.000 workers would answer the call, declared that "now is the time for action.” Delegates answered by issuing a mandate to their executive council to call out cotton workers before Sept. 1 The other divisions subsequently were ordered out in sympathy. A five-man board of strategy was appointed, headed by Vice-President Francis J. Gorman Strike headquarters were established at Washington. and in various regions where the industry Is strong. Leaders confidently hoped for mediation in the threatened strike, but this week that hope faded and the strike was set for Sept. 1. or sooner. Mill owners frankly are apprehensive. A strike on Sept 1 will find at least 1.100 cotton textile mills, ready to begin heavy winter production, closed down Should the other branches walk out in sympathy, the nation-wide strike would involve almost 700 woolen and worsted establishments and more than 1.400 silk, rayon and throwing mills.

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Mms Mildred Batz Classes in meat cookery’ at the girls’ school to be held at the Indiana state fairground. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Aug. 30, 31, and Sept. 1. will be conducted by Miss Mildred Batz. She is a member of the home economics department of the national live stock and meat board.

OIL ATTENDANTS AWAIT ANSWER Demands Served on Their Employers Discussed by Union. Following a meeting last night, members of Filling Station Employes Union No. 18990 today were waiting to hear the answer of employers to demands presented them last Saturday. A proposed agreement asking for the meter system of checking, increased pay and better working conditions was presented to the Shell Petroleum Corporation, the Lubrite Oil Corporation, the Sinclair Refining Company, the co-operative Service Corporation, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, the Puroil Company, the Phillips Petroleum Company and the Perine Oil Company. The employers have until Saturday to answer the requests. Adoph Fritz, Indiana State Federation of Labor president, addressed the filling station employes at the meeting last night thereby giving official sanction of the state group to the new union.

6 SUPERVISORS ARE GIVEN SCHOOL POSTS Appointments Announced by McNutt Aid. The appointment of six state supervisors of emergency educational projects was announced today Jjv Winston Riley Jr., emergency educational director for the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief, and Floyd I. McMurray. state superintendent of public instruction. Supervisors and their projects are Dr. Ernest L. Bowman, Indianapolis, parent education; William Bacon. Indianapolis, literacy; Dr. Pleasant Hightower, Indianapolis, general adult education; Frank Taylor, Indianapolis, emergency vocational rehabilitation; Florence Bender. Goshen, emergency nursery schools, and John Dillon, Bloomington. vocational and workers’ education. The supervisors will act as liaison officers between the local and emergency school programs. PARKED CARS LOOTED: CLOTHING IS REMOVED Loss of SIOO in Apparel Reported by Chicago Woman. Mrs. Lillian Almquist. Chicago. HI., reported to police last night that articles and clothing valued at SIOO had been stolen from her automobile parked at 15 South Pennsylvania street. Other larcenies from parked cars reported to police are articles valued at SB6 from the parked car of Hugh Hiffman. Dayton. 0., and articles valued at $22 from the parked car of Ernest Sigell, 430 North Meridian street. •LIBERTY’ MEN TO MEET Session to Be Held in Office of A1 Smith. By United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 28—Plans for extending the American Liberty League. founded by prominent Democrats and Republicans dissatisfied with certain features of the New Deal, will be considered today at a meeting of organizers. The meeting will be held in the office of former Governor Alfred E. Smith. A campaign to establish the League in even,’ state will be discussed.

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