AMERICAN STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 171, 21 July 1922, Page 5

AMERICAN STRIKE.

NEGOTIATIONS COLLAPSE. i GRAVE INDUSTRIAL CRISIS. ; FIRST ISSUE LOST SIGHT OF. i QUESTION OF SENIORITY. ; <IJ_\ Cable.- Press Association.— Copyright., trti-ci ivi :i ■::.:< i.. m .i N'KW \<JRK, July -Jo. Willi ihe complel dlap-e of the Ipi :.ce negotiations j n regard to th- mili v.iy strike, the diked Stares i-- ia. it g the full gravity of an industrial crisis. ■ -ipproximatclv a million men are en- ! gi.ged in the'strike.-. | Ml U"";iit. chairman of the Railroad | Labour Board, a. -crts that th.- i- ;-.ies jth.r ran-ul the strike have been lost j sight of, and the (piesiion of seniority j to-day is live chief point of contention. ! The union oliicials lirmlv demand that | nil rights slinil be restored to the sliopI men. that being the rock on which the I peace efforts have broken down. The I railway presidents are equally firm in ; insistence that the seniority rights of | the men now working shall be recognised. : Three hundred trains in the Kastevn State, have been cancelled. (Renter.! INDUSTRY THREATENED. j EFFECT OF COAL SHORTAGE. MANY FACTORIES CLOSING. tUeccive.l " t'.iii.i NEW YORK. July 20. ( hicago advices stale that the industrial situation due to the coal strike is growing critical. Scores of factories arts lining '.11' their men. ami industry is threatened with a total shut down. lac Illinois itm! operators claim that it is impossible to open the mines under President Harding's plan owing to the liiil ptr cent organisation of the miners. 'Ihe New York railway authorities claim thjit the actions , : f the strikers are endangering the lives of passengers. In several instances tampering with the brakes is alleged. strikers at Monongahela. Pennsylvania, lired on the guards, wounding four policemi n.- (A. and X.Z. (able.) GUARDS FOR THE MINES. TIVO GOVSKNOKS REFUSE. NEW YORK, July 20. Eighteen State Coventors have replied to the President's request for co-opera-tion in tlic reopening of the mines. Two of thai number refused to accede to his request to use force to protect the mines. The Coventor of North Carolina telegraphed:. "There arc no coal mines in the State, but even if there were I would j never consent to use force to protect mines operated by inexperienced nonunion substitute labour. ** The Governor of Maryland replied that In- could not give assent without mature consideration, and suggested that a friendly discussion would better assure j peace.-(A. and N.Z. Cable.?