STRIKES IN AMERICA

Evening Star, Issue 18058, 28 August 1922, Page 4

STRIKES IN AMERICA

RAILWAY DEADLOCK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 26. It is learned that President Harding intends to wait a few days to sc© what steps the railways will take to meet the situation caused by the collapse of the peace negotiations, after which, if nothing is don© to improve the service, he will ask Congress to seize the lines. Senator Edge introduced a resolution in the Senate empowering the President to seize the mines immediately.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ' EFFECT OF COAL SHORTAGE. NEW YORK, August 26. A Detroit telegram states that Air Henry Ford has announced that he will close his plants on September 9 owing to the coal shortage.—A. and N.Z. Caible. August 27. (Received August 28, at 9.30 a.m.] The effect of closing Air Ford’s three plants at Detroit and the assembly plants throughout the country will bo to throw out of- work 50,000 employees in Detroit and 100,000 elsewhere.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ANOTHER COMPLICATION. NEW YORK, August 26. (Received August 28, at 9.10 a.m.) The intensification of tho railway strike position is threatened by tho announcement at Chicago by Mr Grable, president of the maintenance way employees’ organisation, that the Railway Labor Board will be asked to increase its pay from twentythree to forty-eight cents per hour.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SENATE DISCUSSION. WASHINGTON, August 26. (Received August 28, at 8.5 a.m.) Strong opposition has developed in tho Senate to legislation giving the Government extraordinary powers to deal with tho industrial situation.

Senators Reed and Stanley opposed the Coal Commission Bill, saying that laws sufficient for the purpose arc now extant, and the proposed investigation's useless. '. Senator Dial suggested that Congress should adjourn sine die, adding that this would be tho best service the Senators could render the country. Senator Stanley said that nationalisation of tho coal mines would bo a grave mistake, and would work injury to the nation.

It was announced that it was proposed to introduce legislation next week empowering tho Administration to take over some of the railways and the anthracite mines, according to tho President’s wishes. —A. and N.Z. Cable.