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...walkout of the National Students League planned for that time will go on as arranged without the interference of the authorities according to Dean Hanford. "I see no reason why the University should in any way alter the regular curriculum because of the strike," was the official dictum...
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...
...conservative American Federation of Labor's two Unions in the field, the United Textile Workers and the Amalgamated Associated Silk Workers, had also voted to strike for practically the same demands as the National Textile Workers. Last week the A. F. of L. organizers watched the Communist walkout closely, advanced their own strike date to this week when 10,000 more Paterson silk workers are expected to quit...
Industry throughout France's northeastern manufacturing area was paralyzed last week by a walkout of some 135,000 workers. Smoke rose from few stacks in the textile and metallurgical centres of Rouen, Amiens, Lille. Serious disturbance developed at only one point, Roubaix, close to the Belgian border. There 900 Belgian strikebreakers, being escorted over the line by police, were stoned. Twelve were injured...
Demands of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: abolition of 1,500 "sweatshops"; 10% wage increase; a 40-hour, five-day week; an impartial commission to settle disputes; unemployment insurance. Well heeled was the Union for this walkout; last summer it sold $250,000 worth of 5% strike bonds...