STRIKES IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 18046, 14 August 1922, Page 4

STRIKES IN AMERICA

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NEW YORK, August 12. The Railway Executive’s meeting _ at New York, after a protracted session, named a committee to go to Washington to confer with President Harding. While information is refused, it is believed that a compromise on the President’s plan will ho submitted. It was learned later that the Railway Executive’s Committee will inform President Harding that it will accept his proposal to end the strike, with the seniority question referred to the Railway Labor Board, provided that the board adheres to the July decision that men who left work in defiance of the board cannot be regarded as employees of the railways. As, however, the shopmen insist that seniority rights should he restored, a settlement is Apparently blocked.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

The Illinois Coal Operators’ Association’s adjourned conference again refused to send representatives to Cleveland to meet the miners’ leaders until the latter agree to arbitration. '’Following upon the reopening of soma of the mines, under the old wage and working conditions, President Harding telegraphed to the operators declaring that the “offer was liberal, and stating that if the miners reject it the Government must itself find some way of extricating industry from its present difficulties.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE HERRIN AFFAIR. NEW YORK, August 12. Various Illinois State officials, who have been gathering evidence -against the participants in the Herrin massacre, declare that sufficient evidence has been obtained to convict many of those concerned. The plans that are being made for the trials indicate that the authorities expect that the grand jury will return true hills.

TRAINS ABANDONED,

PASSENGERS STRANDED IN DESERT.

NEW YORK, August 12, (Received August 14, at 8 a.m.)

Tho Federal Attorney-General (Mr Daugherty), following on a conference with Mr Harding, telegraphed to tho United Stale Attorney for California to ascertain whether the abandonment of certain passenger trains in the desert, resulting in groat inconvenience to passengers an din tho hold up of mails, was due to a conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce, in which ease he is to present the matter immediately to the grand jury with a view to the prosecution of the guilty parties.— A. and N.Z. Cable.

CANADIAN MINISTER SPEAKS. LABOR METHODS CONDEMNED. NEW YORK, August 12. (Received August 14, at 8 a.m.) The Canadian Minister of Labor (Mr Murdoch), speaking at Vancouver, said that the United 1 States Railroad Labor Board was trying to force compulsory arbitration down the throats of Labor, thus compelling the men to defy the United States laws. “The strike situation in tho United States,” Mr Murdoch declared, “ is a revolution in the guise of a strike board, winch would compel the men to work under conditions under winch they aro reluctant to work; and this is something Labor will not tolerate.,’’—A. and N.Z. Cable.

POSITION CHAOTIC. NEW YORK, August 13. (Received August 14, at 10 a.m.l Five bombs exploded in the Southern Pacific Railway yards at Roseville, California. The guards fired in the direction of the explosions, and the fire was returned by unknown persons.

Tho Western Pacific is tho third transcontinental lino to suffer, being tied up by the Big Four. Tho union men aro walking out. The services on tho Louisvilk-Naehville railroad are suspended owing to a walkout of engineers and fireruoiK Tiro threatened strike <4 tho “Big Four ” men on the Chicago-Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroads was averted, the owners and men reaching an agreement. Tho Big Four brotherhoods have protested to Mr Lewis against the minors attacking trains maimed by brotherhood members.

Motor caravans arc being formed to rescue passengers from trains stranded in the Middlo California desert since yesterday, when a train crew left 1110111, iTio coal production in the nineteenth week of tho strike was 4,800,000 tons, or 500,000 more than in the previous week, hut 5,000,000 tons below normal,—A. and N.Z. Cable THE MAILS DIFFICULTY. NEW YORK, August 13. Seven carloads of the west-bound mail from the cast aro reported to bo tied up on the Santa Fo Railroad in Arizona. The transcontinental mails are now uncertain. —A. and N.Z. Cable.