Washington, Sept. 2.
"The greatest strike in the history of the United States started yesterday fat 11.80 pin, when 850,000 workers {n textile mills throughout the country walked out to enforce demands fo. reduced hours and increased pay.
The nation-wide strike becam= effective after last minute efforts of the National Labour Board to briny about a settlement had failed.
Due to the fact that the miis would be closed in any event over the Labour Day holiday, the walkout was merely the technical beginning of the strike, the real crisis commencing Tuesday, when picketing will start.
Some of the mits wil remain open, manned by strikebreakers or unionist "'seabs," but apparently most of the nation's 3,300 plants will be closed by orders of their owners President Roosevelt is watching the situation closely but is apparently making no plans to intervene, In New York, Mr. Sloan, chairman of the Cotton institute, said the industry is already raised 10 per cent. above the 1929 levels and has reduced hours to 40 per week after adding 140,000 "workers.—United. Press.
The pseudonym "Zangara." used by Zarn in signing the letter, was Jthe name of the man who shot the fate "Mr. "Anton Cermak,—forme [Mayor of Chicago, at Miami, Florida, In February, 1992, in an attempt to assassinate Mr. Roosevelt, before the President had taken his oath of office. Zangura was subsequently electrocuted after a speedy trial.
'When. interviewed yesterday, Mrs, Roosevelt said that she' was astonisher by rumours stating that the letter had been received at Hyde Park, the summer White House. On. the contrary, she declared. the letter thad been "intercepted by Federal Joficiais in Washington before the Roosevelts left for Hyde Park, "and there it had been handed over to the. police. The whole incident, she aid, had caused no. alarm whatso-lever in the Roosevelt family.—Havas.
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