Mr. Roosevelt's Troubles President Roosevelt possesses so unique a faculty
for riding storms that he is no doubt able to enjoy his holiday on the Hudson unperturbed by the industrial crises in the different branches of the textile trade, the real or imagined administrative crises at Washington and the organization of a go-slow group of nominal Democrats under the name of the American Liberty League. The textile strike is the most imm2diate problem. The main demands of the workers are a 34-hour week with 40-hours pay and full recognition of their union by the employers. Negotiations with the latter have come to nothing and half a million men threaten to strike on Saturday. At the same time President Roosevelt is being defied by the employers in another branch of the trade, the cotton garment industry, for they refuse to comply with the instruction given them under the N.R.A. to reduce hours to 36 a week without reduction of wages. The increased cost. of production is apparently to be passed on to the consumer and the employers do not believe they can get it out of him. Here there is still time for compromise. The employees, of course, back the President.
