Last week President George A. Sloan of the Cotton-Textile Institute swept aside Labor's proposal that the President's Board of Inquiry for the Textile Industry arbitrate the two-week-old national textile strike. The United Textile Workers' demand that all mills be closed by their owners before arbitration commences, Mr. Sloan found "utterly impossible from every standpoint."
Replied Strike Leader Francis J. Gorman: "The battle goes on!"
In the South the strike for a 30-hour work-week at 40-hour pay, elimination of the stretch-out and union recognition, seemed to have reached its peak, settled down into an endurance...
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