RAILWAY STRIKE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 12 August 1922, Page 7

RAILWAY STRIKE.

MORE MEN COME OUT. CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK. RAILWAY WORKSHOP BOMBED (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) NEW YORK, August 11. Declaring that their lives were in danger, the engineers and firemen on important divisions of the Louisville-Nash-ville railway, have struck. The Santa Fe Railway Co. has announced that no trains will leave Los Angeles until the situation created by the Brotherhood walkout is cleared. In Utah transportation is atea standstill by a walkout of the Southern Pacific sWitchmen and firemen. Sixty-three bombs were exploded in the Santa Fe railway shops at San Bernardino, California, but there were no casualties. In New York 200 heads of railway systems have met to vote on Mr. Harding's proposals. It is learned that sharp division exists among the delegates.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) PARTIAL MINE SETTLEMENT. "SOFT" COAL TO BE MINED. NEW YORK, August 11. The New York "World" states that the conference of coal operators and miners of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Western Pennsylvania, now sitting at Cleveland, agreed to make a contract permitting the immediate resumption of soft coal mining, and named a joint committee to work out details of the contract. Mining will probably resume next week. Mr. Lewis, president of the Miners' Federation, said that this meant that 75 per cent of the 600,000 striking miners would return to work. Tlie Illinois Manufacturers' Association has announced that factories in Chicago employing 3,000,000 workers will be forced to shut down owing to lack of coal unless the strike is speedily minated.The engineers, firemen, conductors, and brakemen have struck work on the important Santa Fe railway, because of the presence of guards on railway property. Railway traffic in California is seriously dislocated. The Governors of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and lowa, have informed Mr. Harding that they will approve the taking over of the railways and mines if necessary for the country's welfare.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)