Show STEWARD STE WAR WASHINGTON LETTER r LETT TEXTILE MEN IE J OVER O T. HUl B By i J. J IJA n. n Service Writer WASHINGTON Aug 12 I Just Just what v. v hat the tho commerce te and labor abor de- de can do about the wage wag cut In New Ne' England textile wool wool- woolen en ef ci and worsted mills Isn't very clar ciar Whatever It Is however the he two departments may be de de- 1 on to do It and do it hard hart President Coolidge is I understood I tO 0 o be n I. good deal dal wrought up over he the thE situation When hen he lie asked the commerce and labor officials to go goo goto to 10 o the bottom of It It it was as asgood asgood I good od as Ili a guaranty that they'd thed get tile ic I IC last lut available fact How the president wilt will use his I Information when hen Its It's turned o cr ocro to o him remains to be seen If it favors the th employers It will bo ho I pr tty hard har 1 to make the workers worker tuko much stock In It But theres there's reason to surmise I the Ic leut lOpes It will vIli be thu 0 o other her way wa If so so though he may have hilve lave no rio means of oC actually forcing the fe employers to back track nev- nev I he can make mako It IL some- some w chat at uncomfortable for tor them if It I they thE ey dont I Just a mere statement of his I opinion pinion that the wage age cut was un- un Unjustified justified j would do that thaL Political ng In Washing Washing- Washington ton Ion on Is ts to the the tue pres pres nt probably is decidedly sore on some ome big men In the textile wool wool- Cs C's n 1 and nn 1 worsted Industries A few ago when a convention of oC them hem was held here It will be re- re recalled recalled called that certain among them hinted at a desire for lor more tariff protection and the president he didn't consider it wise Is this wage ut ut their Idea of the He i best way to make him change hIs ils mind A lot of or people think It looks that way wa If Jt the textile woolen and wor- wor sled ed folk ore are trying to sandbag toe Inc ne president It II requires no stretch or of f the Imagination to assume that ho he e doesn't like it Of courses cours the cut angers angels the workers not not only those whom It affects but throughout the tho country President Green of the Federation Fed lation of ot Labor L bor made lade that plain when hen he de- de the reduction as based neither upon reason fairness nor Justice j LOtice The employers may mo not care how labor feels but the tho president does Labor L' dissatisfaction while hes he's in office reacts on his administration On the he theory that the textile t woolen and worsted men really propose to make trouble for the president until he ha yields to their remand for tor a 1 higher tariff wall sandbag Isn't too strong a word ord to describe what they're there doing Its It's tight i- i ht In the presidents president's own par par- particular particular little bailiwick of oC New Eng Eng- England land too which makes It IL all the nervier r. r One of ot the Ironies Iron of the situa- situa situation lion tion Is that President Coolidge's so cl-so se personal and political poll friend William M. M Butler Massachusetts senator and Republican natIonal committee chairman who is se- se soe soI e sideswiped d ed by it is ii himself a it textile I man Butler must run for tor the senate n ain next fall Call He lie has a a. hard his hands at beet beat It tight light on I wont won't help him a bit hit to have his hili mills Included among those which cut cul their pay i And it tt would be might mighty lisa lisa- I for both Butler and Cool Cool- Ige Uge and for tor tho the Republican parly I too It if the latter's national chair 1 I for the sen sen- sena man Iun should be beaten 11 ac a e In the presidents president's home state Maybe the textile woolen ant and worsted people thought of this I certainly did Ho He opposed allied n cut cul but Interests the wage wago with him voted him down don and he het I Imade made it most reluctantly elu n I |