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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...
...slaying of Gang King Frankie Uale in 1928, in Detroit for murdering three "Red" McLaughlin hoodlums in 1927, in Columbus City, Ind. for killing a woman. Since his graduation from the Egan Rats of St. Louis, Killer Burke is credited with $1,000,000 worth of robberies from Paterson, N. J. to Los Angeles. The prices on his head totaled...
...Hoddesdon. He had red hair, a just discernible mustache, and a determination to die rather than go to work. Biscuit's old school friend Berry Conway, a mere commoner, had faced the facts and taken a job as secretary to Lon don-living U. S. Tycoon T. Paterson Frisby. Frisby talked in barks, luckily be came incoherent when dyspepsia and human folly reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over for a London season...