Despite every endeavour to stall it off the textile strike in the United States has become an accomplished fact, and there is a prospect of n0 fewer than 1,000,000 workers being ut of work within a very few days To the ranks of the cotton and. wool. en worsted workers have now been added the silk operatives, and. there a great danger of a very severe struggle ensuing. The demands of the employees are for shorter work-Jing hours, higher wages, elimination of discrimination against union members and the right of collective bargaining. Against these the em= ployers have definitely set their face, and though there is reason to believe that they are not so closely organized as the strikers, there is apparently sufficient community of Durpose amongst them to. enable them to offer a stout resistance in the fight to "a finish which is threatened. The situation is. complicated by the fact that though
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