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Slow and orderly but pregnant with violence was the start of a Communist strike last week in Paterson, N. J., great silk manufacturing centre of the U. S. Sponsor for the walkout was William Zebulon Foster's radical National Textile Workers' Union whose agents and inciters took such woe and bloodshed to the cotton textile industry in and around Gastonia, N. C. two years ago (TIME, April 8, 1929 et seq.). Paterson's hard streets are historically fertile soil for labor disturbances; twice within the last decade have they been harrowed by major textile strikes...
...Paterson's 20,000 silk workers only 800 answered the Red call the first day. Picket lines were formed. Police let the organizers harangue their followers in vacant lots so long as they did not block traffic. Only one stone was thrown through a factory window. By the second day the strikers' ranks numbered some 2,000. When a group of agitators crossed the city line into Clifton, N. J. and began demonstrations outside the Henry Doherty Mills, 24 of them were arrested, jailed in default of $2 fines...
...silk strikers demanded: eight-hour day, five-day week, 40% wage increase. They complained that they were now worked 9½ to 14 hrs. per day for a wage that began at $12 per week. Most of the operators of Paterson's silk mills, large & small, almost welcomed the strike as an excuse to shut down their plants...
...Paris Premier Laval, Foreign Minister Briand and a dozen other French officials and the staff of the German Embassy were all at the Gare du Nord clutching the silk hats of diplomacy. There were a few jeers, a few shouts of Vive La France! Many more cried hopefully, "Vive La Paix...
...Helene Madison polishes her finger nails bright red, wears a red silk bathing suit and a red cap, plans to study art next winter in Seattle, where she lives...