THE LABOUR WORLD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 241, 25 September 1922, Page 3

THE LABOUR WORLD.

AMERICAN RAILWAY STRIKERS. RESTRAINING ORDER. MODIFIED. 1 . New York, Sept. 23. 3 The Federal Court at Chicago granted a temporary injunction replacing the restraining order granted to Mr. Daugherty (Attorney-General) against the railway strikers, with modifications t allowing the unions to use their funds - for sick benefits and cases of necessity, 5 also permitting meetings of unionists i when there is no conspiracy to obstruct , inter-State commerce. It now appears that if the Govern- . n, ent wishes a permanent injunction it will have to ask for another hearing and call witnesses to substantiate the 1 NZ^ 8 againsfc tlie stril£ ers.-—(A. and THE HERRIN MASSACRE. New York, Sept. 23. , -At Marion. Illinois, the grand jury , investigating the Herrin massacre lias issued 19 additional indictments, six for murder and 13 for assault. The total is now 214 indictments, 44 being i for murder.—(A. and N.Z.) AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW. 5 IMPORTANT AMENDMENT , TABLED. r t Washington, Sept. 23. 3 , . ’Johnston, chairman of the House r Immigration Committee, before the ad- ' inurnment of the House, presented iniportant suggestions for the amendment 1 the immigration law. , The most notable arc the reduction of entrants to two or one and a-half per 5 £’ v ’ n £ British dominion” . a fined approximate quota of 600 each annuallv. the treatment of families as J Emitting the wife or husband or children of an alien permanently resident in the United States, more stn’ngent application of the literacy test and physical examination, change of 1 the monthly percentage of each «uota 0 to ten instead of twenty, thus elimin--3 ating the phenomenon of a country’s . onotn being complete! v exhausted in . the first five months of each year, the l authorisation of administrative diss in the determination of nMinnaI'tv .the exclusion of Hindus. Chinese. • Japanese, and all Oriental that 3 r "”inot Boerne citizens ultimatelv.— 3 (A. and N.Z.)