New York, Aug. 18.
The American Federation of Labour
given ite support to the threatenc terday went on record "as having textile strike, involving 825,000 workers.
As the result votes taken to-day, it Was decided to walk out on strike fon September 1, in accordance with instructions from the unions, Silk, rayon and synthetic rayon workers also voted in favour of striking in sympathy with the cotton and woollen worsted workers, but no decision was reached as to when. they would cease work. Their action is interpreted as a strategic move to obtain what labour terms as proper enforcement of the National Recovery Administration provisions, 'Mr. George Sloan, president of the Employers' Cotton Institute, to-day declared that he could visualize nothing more fatal to the recovery programme and the National Recovers Administration than "a strike to compel the Government to change code."—Reuter.
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