STRIKES IN AMERICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 7 November 1919, Page 5

STRIKES IN AMERICA.

1 COAL PRODUCTION CEASED

RAILWAY TRAINS' STOPPAGE

BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION-COPYEIGHT (Received Nov. 7, 8.50 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6. Coal production has ceased throughout the United States, and railway trains are being discontinued.

TIIE INTERNATIONAL CONFER-

ENCE.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5The Canadian group objected to the eight-hour day resolution at the international conference on the ground that it provided a forty-eight hour week instead of a forty-four. The Canadian group preferred the women's conference resolution making an eight-hour day basis without overtime, and providing a thirty-six hour weekly rest.