Show I I MILL CHIEFS SPURN LABOR LABORI PEACE MOVE Operators Reject Boards Board's Bid for Parley Pary to Avert Textile Strike WALKOUT CALL DRAFTED L 1 Garrison Garris n Will N Not t Ask Delay in NEW YORK Aug 29 UP UP Tex Tex Textile tile mill mm owners in conference at atthe atthe atthe the Cotton Colton Textile Institute today rejected rejected rejected re re- re- re a proposal for an eleventh hour conference with leaders of the United Textile Workers of America which plans a wide nation strike on Saturday The refusal apparently blasted the thelast thelast thelast last hope of averting the walkout of ot workers in Industrial industrial industrial indus indus- possibly an trial conflict d described as the most serious yet faced by N R A. A The Thc proposal was made b by Lloyd K Garrison chairman of the national national na na- na relations board at Washington The Thc union leaders acc accepted but said they preferred to confer with the Industry leaders rather than the textIle textile tex tile Ule code authority Sloan Sends Telegram The owners meeting here today with George A A. Sloan who is both chairman of the code authority and the textile rejected the II proposal for a conference in ina a a telegram tele tele- gram signed by Sl Sloan an and sent to Garrison Sloan did not affix attix his title to the telegram and his e could not I explain whether he was was' acting g for lor forthe forthe the c code de authority or the owners owners but it w was s pointed out he had been conferring conferring conferring con con- ferring with owners owners I 5 WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Aug Ug 29 29 P Chairman Garrison of the thc national lab labor r r relations board said today he had no intention of f withdrawing from the me menacing la ing textile strike situ situation but that unless uril ss s something develops he would make snake no formal request that the walkout be delayed Call Prepared His statement was made at a press conference while an ord order r expected to tie up the entire cotton textile industry in in industry September 4 was being prepared pre prepared pre prepared pared at strike headquarters of the United Textile Workers In explaining his statement that thai he would not request a a formal postponement post of the strike Garrison said At the present time we have nothing nothing noth noth- ing tag upon which to base such a request request re re- re- re quest The situation may change within 24 hours Violence Grows Crows in Bus I Strike at Chicago CHICAGO Aug 29 Violence JP-Violence ff Violence In the Chicago company strike had assumed serious proportions proportions today One eighth of ot the city's police force were assigned to strike duty as the thc list of ot casualties swelled to 36 injured two of ot them serious Most of the violence is caused by men in cars and arid on foot who throw bricks through bus windows and flee WASHINGTON Aug 29 Pos W-Pos- Pos Possibility of an agreement that would end the aluminum strike within a afew afew afew few hours was seen by representatives tives Lives of of the Aluminum Company of ol America during a recess in m their conference today with aluminum workers council executives The strike affecting about workers in four of the company's largest plants was called several weeks ago I Phoenix Continues I Drive Div on Alieni on Ii labor bor h PHOENIX 29 The F The legal drive to force for e alien Orientals from farmlands of the Salt River valley val vol ley icy was pressed today as a produce company prepared to remove Japanese Japa nese who are arc not American citizens citizen from its lands The S. S A. A Gerrard company took this step when the superior court reused refused re re- re- re used fused to vacate a 3 week old order restraining restraining restraining re re- re- re straining the company and 11 Japanese Japa Japa- nose nese from cultivating truck gardens in conformity with Arizona's anti- anti alien aUen land law SPOKANE Wash Aug 23 28 JP- JP Spokane was waiting walling for a street streetcar streetcar streetcar car again today at after r a night of sus suspended service ordered when buses and street cars were stoned and fired i upon during the first day of the operators operators' operators operators' op op- operators strike The vandalism which the Spokane United Railways to call callin callin callin in buses end cars occurred at atthe the Hillyard Hill Hill- yard terminal No Basis for Strike Textile Magazine Asserts NEW YORK Aug AUf 29 The 29 The demands demands de de- de- de mands of the United Textile Workers of America in threatening a cotton textile strike are out of line with all aU statistical evidence available Dou Douglas Doug Douglas las G. G Woolf editor of Textile World stated today Average hourly earnings earnings earn earn- ings in that industry according to the bureau of at labor Jabor statistics he Continued on ue ie e Two MILL OWNERS SPURN PARLEY ARLEY Hopes lopes Fade for Averting Tie Tic up as Operators Remain Adamant Continued from Pate Pan One points out arc are per cent higher S than the NR pre R A levels An impartial study by the research research re rc- re- re search division of ot N R H A brought the conclusion that there Is no factual or statistical basis f for r r any general in crease in cotton textile code wage rat rates rater It Mr Woolf continues More significant still the same same- agency dis discovered covered that manufacturing operations operations opera opera- on representative cotton fabrics were resulting in a cash loss of 2 2 1 cents per pound Demand D Declines It It rt Is b true he be continues continues that there has ha been a sharp drop in the demand for cotton goods and that em em- have been working fewer hours per week with resulting decrease decrease de do- crease in weekly wages Just how a astrike astrike astrike strike is going to remedy that sitUation situa alma situation tion tian Is difficult to understand One o otha of tho tha demands for is-for a shorter workweek workweek work work- week but with the present w weekly ekly wage This means higher costs inthe in inthe inthe the industry of course course And yet the theN theN theN N R It A research division concluded that increased costs In cotton textiles tex tiles cannot be passed along to the consumer except at cost of lessened demand and fewer lewer opportunities fo for employment and that a a further increase increase increase in in- crease in costs cannot readily be absorbed ab absorbed by the industry for lor apparent apparent- ly y even present costs have to be m met meto t to o some extent by dL dissipation of work work- in lag ing capital Those are Ire the facts according to Mr Woolf Against them he adds I The nhe he call for a a general strike seems strangely futile Board oud Ignored Chutes Charges The other demands pertaining to the he stretch stretch out ut and collective bargaining bargaining bar bar- gaining reflect a tendency to ignore the existence of the cotton textile national Industrial relations board This board d. d whose function it is to act I In m au all disputes involving these and o other her matters provides equal representation representation for employers and em em- is regarded as a model type of organization for this purpose and has done a fine job to date Such a board of f course can never get per cen cent commendation in this controversial zone but Impartial observers have recognized in it a long step forward in our national labor policy To flout flou it at this time is a step backward is the opinion of Mr Woolf In view of all these facts he concludes concludes con con- eludes it U seems unbelievable that tha the United Textile Workers would deliberately de do- lead Its members into a hopeless struggle which can result Ir in only loss and suffering to them |