STRIKES IN AMERICA
SOFT GOAL MINES. REPORTED AGREEMENT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 11. The New York ‘World's’ Cleveland correspondent states that the coal operators and tho minors in the Ohio, Illinois, anti Western Pennsylvania hove agreed to make a contract permitting the immediate resumption of soft coal mining, and. have named a joint committee to work out the details. Mining will probably be resumed next week. Mr Lewis said that this means, that 75 per cent, of the 500,000 striking minors will return to work.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FACTORIES SHORT OF COAL. NEW YDRK, August 10. The Illinois Manufacturers’ Association has announced that factories in Chicago employing 300,000 workers will be forced to shut down owing to the coal shortage unless the strike is speedily terminated.— A. and N.Z. Cable. THE RAILWAY IMPASSE. NEW YORK, August 11. • The engineers, firemen, conductors, and brakemen bavo struck on an important Santa Fe railroad, because of the presence of guards on the railway property. C:ilifornian railway traffic is seriously tied up The Governor of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and lowa informed President Harding that they will approve of the taking over of the railways and mines if necessary for the country’s welfare.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN STRIKE. NEW YORK, August 11. (Received August 12, at 9.5 a..m.) Declaring• that their lives were endangered, the engineers and firemen in important divisions of tho Louisville railways has struck.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BOMBS EXPLODE. NEW YORK, August 11. (Received August 12, _at 9.5 a.m.) Sixty-three bombs exploded in the Santa Fe Company’s shops at San Bernardino, California. There were no casualties.—A. and N.Z. Cable. EMPLOYERS DIVIDED. NEW YORK, August 11. (Received August 12, at 9.5 a.m.) Two hundred railway heads met to vote on Mr Harding’s proposals. It is learned that a sharp division exists,—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 4
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308STRIKES IN AMERICA Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 4
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