AMERICAN STRIKES
FURTHER DISTURBANCES VIOLENCE BREAKS OUT IN VARIOUS PARTS. MINING SETTLEMENT EXPECTED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, August 17. With the railway executives and the strike leaders meeting in New York to-day in on endeavour to reach a settlement, violence has broken out in various parts of the 1 country. The troops at Joliet, Illinois, were fired on and martial law may be restored! at Clinton, Illinois, ae a .result of clashes between armed strikers and strikebreakers. The non-union men were bady beaten at Cedar Rapids. lowa, and Janesville, Wisconsin. A message from Philadelphia states that the anthracite miners are conferring with the owners. It is understood that an agreement has practically been reached by which. 155,000 workers will return to the mines. President Harding has announced that he has postponed sending a message to Congress pending the outcome of the negotiations between the strikers and the owners.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11293, 19 August 1922, Page 6
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