Word: stretch-out
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...These three hurried to Washington to begin their job of peacemaking. The United Textile Workers complained that mill owners were overworking the "stretch-out," were refusing to bargain collectively. The employers complained that they could not afford to meet the union's demand of 40 hours pay for 30 hours work...
Already the textile code forbids unreasonable "stretch-out," and requires collective bargaining. As for higher wages and shorter hours, an NRA investigation recently resulted in a report that the indus-try could not afford them under present conditions...
...Second Trouble. By that time Labor had developed an acute distaste for a system of cutting down supply which also cut down wages by 25%. But Labor had another major complaint. The mills were trying to offset high wages by resorting to the "stretch-out," the hated practice whereby a worker is forced to tend more and more looms. These were not the only two troubles which NRA had brought. Section 7 (a) had sent the A. F. of L. out on a mighty crusade to unionize the industry. With the prestige of the Recovery Act behind them...
Fortnight ago the United Textile Workers held a meeting in Manhattan and with only a handful of dissenting votes demanded that NRA increase wages, cut hours, end the "stretch-out" and grant them union recognition. Otherwise?a strike on or about Sept. 1. Since President McMahon had been elevated to the Labor Advisory Board, Vice President Francis J. Gorman, a dark, stocky, ruddy-faced man, equally as well dressed as Leader McMahon, but more aggressive, was sent to Washington to prepare for the strike. Turning down overtures of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, he announced that 300,000 cotton...
Alabama. The United Textile Workers of America called a Statewide strike in Alabama demanding a 30-hour week, $12 minimum wage, abolition of the "stretch-out,"* reinstatement of men fired for union activity, union recognition. Out marched the hands in 24 mills in northern Alabama. Of the State's 35,000 textile workers the union estimated 22,000 were on strike, while employers set the figure at 13,000. Well aware that cotton goods have been piling up in warehouses, employers took the strike philosophically, announced the mills would stay shut indefinitely, declared the union was "striking against...