The Archive · 1937

Strike Position In. Silk Industry

Patterson, New Jersey, Aug. 14

Contracts have been signed by the Textile Workers Organizing Cor mittee with sixty silk and rayon manufacturers in the New Jersey and Pennsylvania area, employing 8.900 hands, it was announced to-day.

However, it is reported that the Silk Commission Manufacturers, employing 6,000 hands is still opposing the demands of the union.

Meanwhile, the Textile Workers Organizing Committee has extended a campaign in Providence, Rhode Island, with the expectations to untonize 10,000 workers in the silk and rayon industries there—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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