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”HENDERSON gateway to CENTRAL CAROLINA TWENTY-FIRST YEAR STRIKE RANKS GROW 200,000 Estimated Idle Over Country Out Os 650,000 Workers Union Claims Big Success, As Owners Call It A Failure Majority of Worker* Not In Sympathy With Move ment, George A. Sloan Says WIDE SPREAD OF CLAIMS IS SHOWN Varying Numbers of Work ers Idle in New England, According to Officials; Sloan’s Figures for South Cover Estimates First Day of Strike 'By hte Associated Press.) An estimated 200,00 or more textile workers seemed today to have obeyed a union order for a general strike to make 650,000 workers idle in 22 states. The exact number was a matter of dispute between unions and employ ers, as both sides claimed the victory in today's check after the first skir mishes yesterday on the Labor Day holiday. Francis J. Gorman, chairman of the strike committee of the United Textile Workers of America, hailed the strike as a “tremendous success” r**ter Van Horn, chairman of the silk code authority, said a survey as applied to silk, rayon and synthetic fabric industries showed the strike was "almost a complete failure.” George A. Sloan, chairman of the Cotton Textile Code Authority, said his survey of New England indicat ed "the majority of workers are not in sympathy with the strike move ment." Sloan said that in the South, in some parts of which mills operated yesterday, 126.000 were working, and 38,500 idle. Showing the wide range of figures from the opposing group, the strike director for New England asserted that 22,000 out of 53,000 workers in Rhode Island were on strike, and 98 Percent of the 36,000 in Connecticut. Os Alabama's 40,000 extile workers were 15.000 were estimated to be on strike. Unofficial surveys in Pennsylvania placed the number made idle by the strike at 40,000 out of a total of 100,- 000. r n New Jersey only 800 out of 30,- 000 silk workers were said to be on (Continued on Page Three) Hoover Plan Speculated At Capital W ashington Wond ers if His Attack on New Deal Presages His Candidacy Washington wondered today whether 'ihert Hoover plans an attempt to I~lrn 1 ~ lrn the White House. The speculation—entirely informal ms far—was stirred by an article by T' 1 former president published in the ,u, tent sisue of the Saturday Evening Post. shh was the first time since he left u White House on March 4, 1933, 191 Mr. Hoover has publicly express his views on political questions. He h ' ls wr itt.er a book giving his opinions ’" greater detail, which will be pub ls,led 'ate this month. The former Resident asserted the new deal is a Usurpation of liberty, and was chal -pr|g''d sharply by Secretary Ickes. When he speaks of liberty, he is 9 king of the rights of property,” ■'/' !ri s he Interior Department head, a ormer Republican. He added in a s atement to newspaper men: Does he mean the liberty of a spe- Cla | c * as sto build up fortunes and ex- R others less fortunate, or the lib - f rty of People to have jobs and decent £o 2ies i a which to live?” HswJifr Governor Reports No Big Disorders Raleigh, Sept. 4 (AP) —Governor Ehringhaus this afternoon said he had no report o fany serious dis orders in the textile strike sec tors o fthe State. “I have had a good many reports on conditions, with some sources expressing fear that there fight he later trouble, but I have heard of no real disorders,” the governor said. SCHOOL OPPOSITION RATHERSURPRISING Board of Education Section Supposed To Be Pleas, ing To Them LOST ORIGINAL POINT School Men Who—Have Joined Anti Revisionists Have Joined Cause They Cannot Like So Very Much Daily Dispatch Bureau, In the Sir Walter Hotel, Raleigh, Sept. 4.—School teacher opposition to the new constitution has caused a great deal of comment since the proposde State board of education section of the revised draft was sup posed to have been highly acceptable to the leaders. 1 Announcement that former Presi dent Clyde A. Erwin, of the North Carolina Education Association; Sec retary Jule B. Warren, Ex-President Holland Molton all have joinde the anti-revisionists, caused a lot of com ment here last week, but the anti irevisionists probably would not be so happy over the attachment of the “big three” to this cause if those (Continued on Page Three) JENN GOLTRANE, 47, DIES IN NEW YORK Bit of Mystery Surrounds Passing of Prominent North Carolinian New York, Sept. 4.—(AP)—A wo man believed to be Jenn Coltrane, 47, of Concord, N. C„ died early today in Bellevue hospital. She had been taken to the psycho pathic ward of the hospital after she had handed a rubber band to a taxi cab driver and told him htat would identity him at a hotal and enable him to collect the fare she owed him. The cause of her death was not im mediately ascertained. D. B. Coltrane, of Concord, iden tified as her father, was notified. , The woman hailed the taxicab in jfront of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel last Wednesday and asked to be taken to the Pennsylvan*a station. • When she handed the driver a rub ber band, he summoned a policeman who took her to the West 30th street police station. Ther eshe refused to identify herself or give any informa tion regarding herself. A physician ordered her taken to Bellevue for observation. MISS COLTRANE PROMINENT IN ACTIVITIES IN STATE Concord, Sept. 4. —(AP) —Miss Jenn W. Coltrane, reported to have died in a New York hospital today, was a prominent leader in civic, social and religious affairs in North Carolina. For a number of years she held im portant offices in the Daughters of the American Revolution and at one time was national historian-general. At the time of her death she was editor of “The Carolinas," magazine published in Charlotte. The body is expected here tomor row. Funeral plans are incomplete. ONLY DAILY L m«™ ED WIRB SERVICE OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. son ilatUi Bisuairh NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VUKtfNIA. HENDERSON N. C. TUESDAY NEW SHIPS OUTSHINE OLD AT NATIONAL RACES gL.. , „ '“L *** IH I!* % New ships and old ships, stunt ships and speed ships, and a ‘mystery ship” play roles in the National Air races at Cleveland. The “mystery ship”, a huge new plane competing in the transcon tinental race, is pictured at top. Mills Here Not Affected By Textile Strike As Yet Normal operations were resumed today in the two units of the Hen derson Cotton Mills at North Hen derson and the three units of the Harriet Cotton Mills at South Hen derson, following the Labor Day holi day shutdown yesterday, and there were no evidences of any effects at either place of the nationwide tex tile strike, so far as could be learn ed. All employees of all the mills were reported on the job, with op erations proceeding smoothly, and Without the slightest indication of any disorders or trouble of any sort. All the mills combined, which are RICK IS SEEN AS RULER OF NRA Belief Is Johnson Is Being Elevated by Roosevelt To A Shelf By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer New York, Sept. 4. —A young wo man writer, returning from her fourth trip to Russia in recent years says that country shows great ad vancement. But she adds that trains are as dirty and as uncomfortable as ever. She has no quarrel with that, if the mass of people are happy. She went all the way around the world, stopping off in Manchuria, also “I go to Manchuria and Russia be cause they are the only two coun tries in the world,” she explains. “Manchuria is beginning from the ground up with capitalist civilization. Russia has the opposite, socialist ci vilization. Ic is interesting to observe (Continued on Page Three) FATAL EXPLOSION ON FISHING SMACK San Diego, Cal., Sept. 4 (AP) — One man was killed, three were believed to have drowned and two injured seriously when a terrific blast wrecked a 33-foot fishing boat moored here early today. TO 80.000 01 CAROLINAS At left center is a plane that i looks like a miniature model be side Other huge T cr*ftaLthe..races.. At right center are two dare devils of the air, Gerd Aechgelis (in cockpit), famous German inverted flying specialist, and under the same managmeent, employ somehting over 1,500 persons. The on ly prospect of trouble here lies it is said, in the possibility that “flying squadrons” of union workers from other points may come here and at tempt to force the operatives to quit their posts. So far as can be learned, the ap parent virtually unanimous sentiment of the workers against a strike is shared by the community in general, where it is hoped that the local plants may escape difficulties. The mill management is represented as feeling they are doing everything they can for their employees, and that they are operating all the plants Strikers Are ToßeFedßy Government Will Be Treated As Unemployed and So Helped, Harry Hopkins Declares By CHARLES P. STEWART Washington, Sept. 4—A#e 4',trikes, assuming that Uncle Sam considers them justified, to be financed hence forward by the government? Such certainly is the interpretation generally placed in Washington upon Federal ißelief Administrator (Harry L. Hopkins’ statement, while a tieup in the textile industry was £till pend ing, that his organization proposed to feed the workers (just as it is pre pared to feed any other class of the unemployed), in the event of a walk out—unless the Labor Department (Continued on Page Three) "wiathlr' FOB NORTH CAROLINA. Fair tonight and Wednesday; somewhat cooler Wednesday and in west portion late tonight. ON, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934 Flight Commander R. L. R. Atch* erly, Royal Air Corps ace whose £Xa*y. .flying, dfcas won fame in America and Europe. Below is an ancient Lincoln Beachey pusher of 1910 vintage, on the sir race program for some special stunt*. to the full extent permitted by or ders for their producl, and that they will run longer hours if and when it is possible to do so. They are also represented as being appreciative of the attitude and seeming understand ing of this situation by both the em ployees and the Henderson com munity. There are many here who remem ber vividly the strike in the summer of 1927, which lasted more than a irijonth, and which was marked by the ordering of troops to the South [Henderson mills to preserve! order and to prevent damage to mill pro perty. The strike was considered a failure for the workers. OFoSS Sept. 18 Set for Hearnig In Taylorsville Bank Mur der Case In the Sir Walter Hotel, Daily Dispatch llnrean, Raleigh, Sept* 4.—September 18 has been set for the argument in the appeal of the two Greens under ’/death sentence for murder of the Taylorville banker a year ago, the Supreme Court fixing that date out of regard for the illness of Leland Stanford, counsel for the convicted men. The High Point lawyer’s Illness turned out to be a benefaction to the condemned men, whose time for liv ing automatically would have ex pired. They will get a hearing on their original conviction and if there is a new trial they will get that further respite. Meanwhile, R. E. Black, fel low convict and under death sentence, (Continued on Page Three) FATAL RIOTINGS ON HAVANA WATERFRONT Havana, Sept. 4 (AP)—At least one man was killed and another as wounded in a fight between dock workers in which broke oat in the waterfront today. rOBLISHBD x BVMtT n APT*RNOOH FIVE CENTS COPY Flying Squadrons Force Workers Off Jobs In Factories Half of Industry In N. C. Effected Charlotte, Sept. 4 (AP)—The gen eral strike fills morning* appeared to have spread to slightly more than 50 per cent of the Carolinas cotton textile industry. A survey revealed the following ap proximate figures: Workers idle 81,780. Workers on jobs, 79,000 (approx imated). Mills closed, 229. Mills running with skeleton for ces, 20. Mills operatin gpractically at nor mal or normally, 200. Big Gains By Unions At Durham Hosiery W e r k e-f & Join Textile Group There; Troops Out In South Carolina (Charlotte,, 4.—'(AP)—Addi tional thousands of workers answer ed the call this morning as the gen eral textile strike gained momentum throughout the Carolinas. The union made its greatest gains in Durham, N. C., where the strike was described as 100 percent effective by newspaper observers. Three plants of the Erwin chain there were closed tight with 2,400 walking out. The Durham Cotton Manufacturing Com pany and the Golden Belt Company, employing 900, opened their gates, but no workers attempted to pierce the picket lines. The strike also spread into the Dur ham Hosiery Mills, which was not in cluded in the general strike call. Pickets persuaded such a large num ber of workers to leave thsir posts that all but the full-fashioned depart ment were forced to close* Normal employment in the entire is 1,- 800. Many plants continued to operate .without molestation, but a large pro portion of these which remained closed yesterday for the Labor Day holiday—an unprecedented action in the South—felt the strength of the United Textile Workrea union this morning. In Mecklenburg county, approxi mately 3,500 who yesterday were for (Continued on Page Two.) sSK OCTOBER 1 Chairman of Federal Com mission Says Legitimate Business Safe Hyd© Park, N. Y., Sept. 4 (AP)— Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the new Federal Stock Exchange Commission, today reported to President Roosevelt the commission would..take over con trol of the vast securities markets on October 1, and he added he saw no harmful effects to legitimate business in it. . i-^v En route to Washington to complete the rules and regulations, Kennedy said the vital manipulative regula tions wov d be drafted in the next week or so. Asked by newspaper men what the effect of Federal control on the mar ket would be, Kennedy, who himself was a former trader, said: “I may cut down the manipulative volume, but I can se eno effect upon natural prices and no harm to legiti mate business.” , PAGES TODAY ————■ 230 Mills Closed, 20 Open, With Skeleton Shifts and Others Closing Almost Hourly SQUADRON FORCES PLANTS TO CLOSE Switches Pulled, Machines Unbelted and Workers Ordered From Posts; Squadron Gaining Strength at Almost Every Point Vis ited in Piedmont Area Charlotte, Sept. 4. (AP)’ — Eightq thousand textile work ers stood in the Carolinas strike lines today watching as “flying squadrons” of unionists roared through the countryside seeking to complete the domain of the general strike. With 230 mills closed, 20 open with skeleton shifts and new closedowns being reported every few minutes, strike leaders from the highly-organ ized Shelby-Gastonia section launched a determined campaign. By'tiooft a “flying squadron” which ‘lift ohefby tOO strong yesterday had grown to 1,000, and held mills of the area idle. Noil a wheel turned tn Gastonia’s 45 plants, and only four operated in Gaston county. The Hanover mill in Gastonia lock ed its doors against the squadron on ly to have them forced open. Squads men pulled switches, unbelted mac hines and ordered workers from their posts. Sonje places they merely called workers to come out of mills where the union was no (organised. In oth ers more persuasion was needed, but leaders exhorted their followers not to resort to violence. The squadron was gaing strength at every plant visited, and leaders predicted it would number 4,000 by mid-afternoon. Reports from throughout the indus (Contlnued on Page Two) DESPERADO KELLY CARRIED TO ISLAND Washington, Sept. 4* (AP) —Depart- ment of Justice officials today con firmed reports that George “Machine Gun” Kelly .bank robber and kidnap er ,was among the group o fprisoners taken from Fort Leavenworth prison Sunday for incarceration in the new Alcatraz prison at San Fra*cisco. Violence In Strike Seen From South Mill Official Assault ed in Macon, Ga.; Industry Crippled In New England (By the Associated Press.) The general strike in the textile industry met its first big test today with violence in the fcouth and threats of violence in New England, where thousands of workers report ed for duty despite the strike call. At Macon, Ga., strike sympathizers assaulted a mill official and overturn ed an automobile loaded with other officials as they attempted to re-en ter th emill grounds. At Fall River, Mass., where 22,000 are employed, the industry was crip pled by many walk-outs, but activity was not at a standstill. All mills were picketed and police on duty at the gates kept pickets moving. Approximately 95 percent of the early shift workers in Salem, Mass., wree at work today Mill officials said, .(Continued on Page Two) J
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