U.S. RAILWAY STRIKE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18168, 14 August 1922, Page 7

U.S. RAILWAY STRIKE.

MORE SERVICES STOPPED. TRAINS LEFT ON DESERT. BOSCBINGF OUTRAGES. Bv Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. Two hundred heads of railway systems have met in Now York to vote on Mr. Harding's proposals to settle the strike. After a protracted session, a committee was appointed to go to Washington to confer with Mr. Harding. It is learned that the committee will inform Mr. Harding th%t the railway executives will accept his proposal to refer the seniority question to the Ra.lway Liibour Board, providing that the board adheres to its July decision that men who left work in defiance of the board cannot bo regarded as employees of the railways. As the shopmen insist that their seniority rights be restored, a settlement is apparently blocked. Five bombs exploded in the Southern Pacific railway yards at Roseville, California. Guards filed in tho direction from which the bombs came and their fire was returned by unknown men. Sixty-three bombs were exploded in the Santa Fe railway shops at San Bernardino, California, but there were no casualties. The Western Pacific is the third transContinental line to bo tied up by a strike of members of the four railway brotherhoods. Services on the Louisville-Nash-ville line have been suspended owing to the engineer# and wiremen ceasing work on the grounds that their lives were in danger. The Santa Fe Railway Company has announced that no trains will leave Los Angeles until the situation created by the strike is cleared. In Utah transportation has been brought to a standstill by a strike of the Southern Pacific switchmen and firemen. Motor-caravans are being formed to rescue the passengers on trains that have been stranded in tho middle of the California desert since yesterday, when the train crows left them. Tho Attorney-General, Mr. H. M. Daugherty, following a conference with Mr. Harding, telegraphed to the United States District Attorney of California to ascertain whether the abandonment of certain passenger trains in the California desert was due to a conspiracy to interfere with inter-State commerce, in which event the matter is to be presented immediately to a grand jury with a view to prosecution of the guilty parties.

A threatened strike of members of the four railway brotherhoods on the Chicago-Milwaukee-St. Paul line was averted by the owners aud men reaching an agreement.

Tho four railway brotherhoods have protested to Mr. Lewis, president of the Miners' Federation, against miners attacking trains manned by members of the brotherhoods.