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...admittedly no menace, as yet, to the Government at Paris, but unrest is stirring deep today in France. The National Millers' Association has openly defied the Government's fixed minimum price for grain and is buying below this price in unpunished violation of the law. Last week silk manufacturers of Lyons denounced the Doumergue Government for "sacrificing the export trade of France to promote an impossible policy of agricultural protection." The Cabinet's failure to fulfill its pledge to reduce the cost of living and growing public distrust of the Government as the Stavisky scandal continues...
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...
...workers alone North Carolina has 92,000, Massachusetts 71,000, South Carolina 70,000, Georgia 55,000, Alabama 25,000, Rhode Island 20,000. Some 400,000 cotton textile workers in 1,200 mills plus some 100,000 woolen and worsted workers in 500 mills plus some 150,000 silk and rayon workers in 1,000 mills?such was the army that the United Textile Workers called off the job this week. How many mill hands in how many districts would answer the union call, not even the strike leaders themselves knew for sure...
...years. He lost the one at Marion, N. C. in 1929 because of premature attempts to organize Southern millworkers. The Danville, Va. strike in 1931 was also a failure. At Lawrence, Mass, in 1932, the Union's six-month struggle blocked wage cuts for woolen workers. A strike among silk workers at Pawtucket, R. I. in 1933 won better wages, a reduction of the machine load per employe. Last year Francis Gorman invaded the South once more to organize cotton textile workers in Alabama. There 13,000 men struck in mid-July, a prelude to the greater strike last week...
Long lines of green monsters with swollen heads symbolized the Brain Trust. They were dropping gold into troughs at which silk-hatted pigs were feeding. At the lower left Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was strangling the Goddess Ceres. Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle...