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I GATEWAY to
CENTRAL
CAROLINA
ENTY-FIRST year
60,000 TEXTILE
CAPITAL AND LABOR
WATCH PROGRESS OF
BIG TEXTILE STRIKE
Ciforgr Sloan, Institute
lifted, Says Looks Like
Most Workers Want
To Keep on Job
FRANCIS.GORMAN IS
MORE THAN PLEASED
}|r Says 85 Percent or More
of Workers Will Be Out
By End of Week; Says Ad
vices Show 100 Percent
Walk Outs in Score Os
Cities Over the South
(By the Associated Press.)
Capital and Labor watched the pro
pros- of the general textile strike to
day and drew widely divergent con
clusions.
From George A. Sioan, president of
the Cotton Textile Institute, came
this statement:
"It looks as though the preponder
ance of workers in the South want to
go on working.”
He based the statement, he said, on
reports he had received from about
■{h textile centrs in the South, includ
ing that about 90 percent of the em
ployees in the mills heard from were
at work today.
On the other hand, Francis J. Gor
man, chairman of the strike commit
tee directing the walk-out, said he
was “more than satisfied” with re
ports from the mills in the South. He
said field agents had 'notified him
that 100 percent walkouts were ef
fective in a score of southern cities.
Gorman predicted that the strike
will be between 85 and 90 percent
complete by Saturday.
Some Major
Sei e ctions
Are Coming
Return of Ehring
ha u s Tomorrow
May Settle Indus
-1 r i a 1 Commission
Office
Drill jr Dispatch Bureau,
In the Sir Walter Hotel,
Raleigh. Sept. 3. —Some major ap
pointments are due here this week
p nd the return tomorrow of Governor
Ehringhaus may accelerate them.
fhv North Carolina Industrial Com
’"issioner* is without a chairman, hsa
’ een Put on notice for three wekes.
Governor Ehringhaus has been ab
s,lnt from his office with an occas
''mal dip into its details betwene
'•Has j n fhg } n t er j or< jj e was expect
(Continued on Pago Four)
Tension Seizes Havana
As Big Strike Extends
Havana, Sept. 3 (AP) —An atmos-
of tension swept Havana at
rif)on today as student disorders
all over the capital city and
strike movement gained momen
tum.
•tie latest disturbances broke out
front of the high school building
*' front of central park, where 501",,s
" ,,s fired through the air to dsipurse
‘’’"tents who stood in the street and
Pistols at the trolley wires and
“Phone cables in efforts to disrupt
C(j rnmunications services.
the employees of the city hall
‘JUr 1 1"
Umlxt Htsmrfrh
Heads Mill Owners
Here is George A. Sloan, Cotton
Textile Institute head and repre
sentative of the mill owners, who
has been negotiating with Dr,
Lloyd Garrison, National Labor
Relations board chairman, con
cerning the strike of more than
500,000 union textile workers.
Orders for the walkout were is
sued after Sloan demanded that
the union leaders confer with the
textile code authority. Strike
Chairman Francis J. Gorman in
sisted the conferences continue
unc! r auspices of the labor bosvf!
iDciisir
GUNSARE SPIKED
Great Quiet Over Jeffress’
Successor Follows High
way Gathering
MANY SEEKING PLACE
Roach Considered in Line; Jeffress
Believed To Have Favored Baise
As Successor to Late
John D. Waldrop
Daily Dispatch flureau.
In the Str Walter Hotel,
Raleigh, Sept. 3.—Spiked guns look
ed to be the result of the first meet
ing of the highway and public works
commission held after the serious ill
ness of Chairman E. B. Jeffress, de
veloped, and there is great quiet in
the sector in which the campaign for
(Continued on Page Six)
and the department sos state and la
bor quit work, as did all the office
workers of the department of pubic
works and all the sanitation workers
except those of the emergency hos
pitals and the first aid stations.
Half the treasury department em
ployees quit.
Colonel Fulgencio Hatista, com
mander of the army, reinforced the
guards at the telephone' company
building and arrested several mem
bers of the strike committee.
Members of the leftist organizations
were lending a hoping to bring
about a general walkout.
ONLY DAILY
LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF
the associated PRESS.
NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA.
HENDERSON N. C. MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1934
THINKS 5,000,000
FAMILIES WILL OE
NEEDY IN WINTER
Richberg Predicts That
Many Will Be on the Fed
eral Relief Payrolls
By February
DROUGHT IS BLAMED
FOR BIG INCREASES
Secretary of Roosevelt Exe
cutive Council Denies
Government lls Contribut
ing to Financing Strikes;
Amount for That Purpose
Declared Negligible
Washington, Sept. 3.—'(AP)— A
prediction that 5,000,000 families, a
new high record, would be on Fed
eral) relief rolls ’in February, was
made today by Donlad Richberg, sec
retary of President Roosevelt’s exe
cutive council.
“The severeity of the drought sit
uation and the usual seasonal in
crease in relief during the winer”
are given as the reason for the ex
pected gains.
Richberg denied wha the called
“misinformation” to the effect that
the government is financing strikes.
“The amount of Federal relief pay
ments which can be attributed to
strikes has been almost negligible,”
he said in the third of a series of
reports he is making to the Presi
dent on progress of the New Deal.
In previous ones he reported that
more than 4,000,000 workers had
been put back into employment, and
that farm prices hda been boosted to
the benefit of agriculture.
JEFFRESS APPEARS
SLIGHTLY IMPROVED
Richmond, Va., Sept. 3 (AP)
Hospital attaches reported today
that the condition of E. B. Jeffress
Chairman of the North Carolina
State Highway Commission, was
still serious, but that, if anything,
he appears a little better.
Roosevelt
Likely For
U. S. Bank
By LESLIE EISCHEL
New York, Sept. 3 —There is belief
in New York that the oosevelt ad
ministration will wind up with a cen
tral government bank. Certain it is,
th only larg erdit that is flowing is
the government’s or that which is
made by the government.
One group .urging a central bank,
holds that the American monetary
system and the purchasing power of
the dollar is controlled by private in
terests —and that those private in
(Continued on Page Three)
Red Flag
Flying At
One Mill
Greenville, S. C., Sept. 3. —(AP)—
Mill machinery hummed widespread
retort to the strike call today at
southern headquarters of the general
textile strike here, although hun
dreds of pickets offered “passive re
sistance” throughout this scection,
and a fence at one mill flaunted the
“red bunting.”
The scores of high-walled textile!
plants rode like ships through the
first crisis of the industrial storm at
7 a. ml, the hour most day shifts re
ported to work. No general disor
ders were reported. Another crisis
was thought possible this afternoon
when night shifts attempt to pass
through tightened cordons of pickets
WORKERS IDLE IN CAROLINAS
Strike Situation Shown
In Survey Os This State
Conflicting Reports Make It
Impossible To Determine
Just How Many
Forced Out
MANY MILLS CLOSED
DURING LABOR DAY
Test of Strength Postponed
Until Tomorrow Morning
When Factories Resume
Operations; Early Reports
Show Around 42,000 Idle
as Result of Strike
Charlotte. Sept. 3. —(AP) —At least
42,000 workers were idle today in the
Carolinas as the result of the general
textile strike call.
Conflicting reports made it impos
sible to determine how many struck
and how many were forced into idle
ness because other workers walked
out.
In addition to the mills closed by
the strike, a number which previous
ly had announced they would operate
today posted notices they were closed
for a labor holiday, postponing the
test of strength until tomorrow.
A bird’s eye view of the strike sit
uation in North Carolina:
Charlotte—Thirteen mills closed,
3,600 workers out; not a wheel turn
ing in textile industry. Some mills ob
serving Labor day; others forced
(Continued on Page Six)
WIATHIR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA.
Mostly cloudy, occasional rains
in east and. north central portions
tonight and In extreme west por
tion Tuesday; somewhat warmer
in extreme west portion tonight.
CL^ NG
KPi Spk *“* / /
The greatest industrial upheaval
of the New Deal is the strike of
600,000 cotton textile workers
employed in 1,500 mills ranging
from Maine to Alabama. Figures
in the strike, which was called
after a deadlock over the demand
for shorter hours and higher
wages, are shown above, with a
map of the affected region and
strikers at a closed plant. Thomas
MacMahon is president of the
Operatives Forced
From Their Posts
King's Mountain, Sept. 3 (AP)
Approximately 900 employees of
three cottojh mills here were
forced from their posts today by a
motorcade if union workers from
Shelby, who invaded at Fourth
Hill at 9:30 a. in., and announced
they would force the closing of all
eleven mills here.
There Were several hundred
members of the union’s “flying
squadron.” No disorder accom
panied the first three force-outs.
iorelW
Will Be Sent Where Needed
During Strike, Gov.
Blackwood Says
Columbia, S, C., Sept* 3—(AP)
Governor Ibra C. Blackwood, issued
a statement here today saying he had
requested Adjutant General James C.
Dozier to have National Guardsmen
ready to make quick mobilization and
to dispatch militia to such places as
may experience serious trouble.”
The governor, said, however, no
troops had been mobilized or dispat
ched to any place except those which
bad already bene sent to the Lons
dale strike area at Seneca.
National Guardsmen will not be or
dered out, the governor said, until
serious trouble is already definitely
apparent. u .
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
EXCEPT SUNDAY.
striking union; Francis J. Gor
man, chairman of the strike com
mittee, and Lloyd Garrison, chair
man of the national labor rela
tions board trying desperately to
effect a compromise.
Strike Head
Is Satisfied
With Start
Gormon Predicts
Walk-Out Will Be
85 Percent Co m -
plete by Saturday
Washington, Sept. 3 (AP) —Francis
J. Gorman, chairman of the strike
committee directing the walk-our in
the textile industry, s~id today he was
“more than satisfied” with reports
from the mill centers of the South.
He predietde that by the middle cf
the week the industry would be crip
pled, and that the walk-out would be.
between 85 and 90 per cent complete
by Saturday.
“Remember,” he told reporters,
"that the first real test will come to
morrow at the textile centers.”
Gorman read telegrams from scores
of communities in the South, most of
them reporting 100 percent walk-outs
and no disorders.
Planning ToForce'
Non-Union Plants
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 3—(AP)—J. “We hope to fight this battle with
zsz'-'nssz °w“t.ra - ™
mass meeting of strikers here today cnee is thrust upon us, we will meet
that “there is away to stop those it.”
mills which are not organized, and The speaker said union members
we are going to stop them.” would make it difficult for any non
“We are ni this fight to win,” union operatives to get a job in any;
Frier said, and he assured the strik- textile plant in Airtreica.”
ers that none would go hungry in the The mass meeting was closed witl)
strika _ s prayer that violence be avoided,
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About 75,000 Workers, Or
Around Half of the Two
States, Pay No Heed
To Strike Call
IDLE WORKERS NOT
ALL PARTICIPATING
Os 200 Mills Known To Be
Closed, Only About 100
Actually Forced by Pickets
to Shut Down; 220 Mills
Known To Be Operating,
Many Without Trouble
Charlotte, Sept. 3. —(AP) —At least
60,000 textile workers in the two Car
olinas were idle today as the result
of the general strike call in the in
dustry, and union "flying squadrons”
were reported ready to force addi
tional shutdowns.
Around 75,000 workers paid no
heed to the strike call.
< Conflicting claims as to how many
walked out of mills which continue
to operate made it impossible to de
termine the status of all the more
than 150,000 workers n the two states.
Not all the idle workers could be
classed as p’articlpafing in the strike.
Os the,2oo mills known to be closed,
only about 100 were actually forced
down by pickets. The status of the
others remained doubtful. Their mills
were picketed, but had announced
they would not open until after La
bor Day, thereby delaying a test of
union strength.
'Approximately 20,000 of today’s idle
were in Gaston county, where only,
eight of 104 plants attempted to op
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Streamer Grounds
89 Miles to South
of San Francisco
San Francisco, CaL, Sept. 3 (AP)
—The steamer J, B. Stetson ran
aground on rocks near Monterey,
Cal., 89 miles souts of San Fran
cisco, the Marine Department of
the Chamber of Commerce was
advised early today.
Marine men here estimated the
small craft carried a crew of 25
men and no passengers. She
struck on Cypress Point in a
heavy fog, the chambe rwas told.
Showdown
In South
Awaited
(By the Associated Press.)
The long arm of the textile strike
reached into the South today and
tested its strength while the rest of
the country observed Labor Day.
Tensely the strike awaited the
showdown as mill whistles blew in
(Southern textile! (centers. Adviced
from the strike front showed thou
sands answering the call of the tex
tile workers and other thousands at
their posts.