The Butler County Press

TEXTILE UNION
TO PUSH PROGRAM
FOR HOURS' CUT

Emergency Committee to
Formulate Plans for Es-
tablishment of National
Maximum 48-Hour Week.

New York City (ILNS)--Meeting here, the executive council of the United Textile Workers of America discussed plans for the establishment of a maximum 48-hour working week in the textile industry and instructed the emergency committee of the organization to formulate a national program to bring the shorter week. One day's session was devoted to the 48-hour week proposal. President Thomas F. McMahon stated that it was the unanimous opinion of the executive council that the industry, as a whole, would be benefited by the acceptance of this principle and, with the abolition of night work for women and minors, the industry could be regulated and the workers assured of more continuous employment.

Workers Must Act

President McMahon declared that the ruinous practice of some employers, in refusing to comply with the regulation of the Cotton Textile Institute is responsible, in a large measure, for the deplorable state of the industry and the workers, as a matter of self-preservation, must assume a more vigorous attitude for their own protection. All organizers and local union officials will be authorized to make a survey of their district and a complete report will be submitted at the next meeting of the executive council, in September. The report will be used as the basis of the 48-hour week program.

Unemployment Rises

Reports from the cotton and silk division of the organization, submitted to the meeting, show a greater unemployment problem than at the last meeting held three months ago, though a noticeable improvement in the wool and worsted division had taken place within the same period. Southern representatives of the Textile Council reported an expansion of the campaign among textile workers into varying centers of South Carolina and Georgia.