U.S. MINERS' STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18153, 27 July 1922, Page 7

U.S. MINERS' STRIKE.

PRESIDENT AND OWNERS. SETTLEMENT PLAN REJECTED. WAR-TIME MEASURES. By TeleeTiDh—Frees Association—CopyrightA. *nd N.Z. WASHINGTON", July 25. I It is announced that the President. Mr. | W. G. Harding, failed in hi? second ef- i fort t«-> settle the mine strike owing to the owners rejectinz; his p'an. The President proposed the establishment of a minimum wage, -with a guarantee of 280 days' work a, year, additional payment being made for each day less than 280. Mr. H." C. Hoover has. announced that the Government is prepared to take immediate charge of any coal district in which the. operators refuse to co-operate in the prevention of profiteering. The Inter-Slate Commerce Commission j has declared that a national emergency has arisen as a result of the railway and coal strikes, and is therefore vesting itself with wartime powers to prevent j profiteering and to ensure the distribution of necessities. A definite move to put the coalmines j throughout the United States under the ! control of the Government was made in j the Senate to-day. Mr. W. E. Borah in- j ■ troducing a Bill to provide for the estab- j i lishment of a Coal Commission to study j the industry in order to assist Congress j ir. legislating to prevent strikes. At San Bernardino, California, railway j strikers stormed a Santa Fe train carry- j ing strike-breakers, firing a fusillade- of | shots. The train guards drove off the at- j tackers with revolvers, several being j wounded.