EMERGENCY MEASURES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11305, 2 September 1922, Page 6

EMERGENCY MEASURES

U.S.A. INDUSTRIAL CRISIS. INTERVENTION OF STATE. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association (Received September 1, 10.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 31. The House of Representatives passed Is.’ measure providing for the emergency distribution of coal. The Bill has now been sent-to the Senate. August 31. The Interstate Commerce Commission has declared that an emergency exists bn the railways of West Mississippi, which are unable properly to serve the prublio and keep up the transportation of essential commodities. The commission will take over the regulation of traffic. The Interstate Commerce Commission recently reported to the Senate that' full trains were being diverted to isolated railway sidings, and coal cars had been tampered with, and made unserviceable ■ The commission, further reported that during July half the locomotives inspected were found to he defective, and one-fourth of these were declared absolutely unsafe for use. SABOTAGE CONTINUES NARROW ESCAPE FOR EXPRESS TRAIN. » NEW YORK, August 31. An attempt to derail the Illinois Central express, near Council Bluffs, lowa, failed. A work oar preceding the flyer by a few minutes crashed into a pile of rocks laid on the track. One of the workmen was killed, and two ’fatally injured. One of the Pennsylvania Railway Company’s bridges over a street at Wilmington, Delaware, has been blown up. Strikers axe blamed:. The Chicago police have arrested three men charged with oonspTfing to dynamite the New York Central’s fast western express. THE MICHIGAN INCIDENT. CHICAGO, August 31. The attorneys representing the striking railway shopmen tod. the American Federation of Labour have announced that they have obtained a Million Dollar Defence Fund to enable them to investigate the arrest x of four men accused of wrecking the Michigan ■'Central train.