Francis J. Gorman, captain of Labor's greatest host, last week sat in Washington and counted the first week's results of his national textile strike. Of some 700,000 cotton, woolen, silk and rayon workers whom he had called to idleness, about 375,000 were "out"—because they had answered his call or because they feared to work. In the two great textile areas, New England with 225,000 workers and the mid-South with 340,000 workers, the strike was respectively about 60% and 40% effective.
Many a skirmish had been...
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