RAILWAY STRIKE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 445, 10 July 1922, Page 5

RAILWAY STRIKE.

TROUBLE IN AMERICA.

TROOPS CALLED OUT.

VIOLENCE IN SEVERAL PLACES

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received July 10, 8.5 a.m. NEW YORK, July 8. The railway strike has assumed serious proportions. Following on the killing of a hoy during a light between the strikers and the railway property guards at Clinton, Illinois, tho State troops have been called out. Four other States, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and lowa, are holding troops in readiness.

Violence has been renewed by the strikers at several points throughout tho country, particularly in Chicago and Now Orleans. Terrorism of workers and suspected strike breakers is alleged to bo rife. Warrants have been'sworn out in the Kansas Industrial Court lor the arrest of three union heads for calling a strike.

Railroad operations are curtailed on several lines because of the shortage of men. The fruit shipments in the West are menaced owing to the extension of the strike to the employees at the ice plants along the main routes. The Governor of Ohio lias circularised the local authorities in the mining districts whore non-union workers are operating, declaring that they will be held to strict account if they do not safeguard life and property in the event of attack by the strikers. The State troops have' been mobilised and held in readiness for use only if the local authorities are unable to cope with tho situation.—A. and N.Z. cable, REQUEST FOR PROTECTION. Received July 10, 8.55 a.m. NEW YORK, July 8. The mine officials at Madisonville have asked tho Governor of Kentucky for troops to prevent trouble at Madisonville, where non-union men are employed.—A. and N.Z. cable.