AMERICAN LABOR TROUBLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13903, 3 November 1919, Page 2

AMERICAN LABOR TROUBLES.

MINERS AND >VATERSIDEI?S IDLE.

[By Ei-ectkic tklegr.u-h—Coi-yricht.]

(Per Press Association.)

(Ah.o. and N-Z. Cable Assn.) Received November 2. at ».~> p.m. WASHINGTON. November 1. Despite the Governmental injunction 400.1)00 miners are idle. Troop? have been despatched to various centres. The Department of Justice lias issued a statement that a coal strike would lie a deadlier attack on the country than any invading army could make. 'Every resource ol the Government Tvill 'be u-ed to prevent disaster resulting through the cessation ot miimiii. HUNDREDS OK VESSELS LAID IP. (Ana. and N-Z. Cabio Assn.) deceived November 2. at •"».•> D.ni. NEW YORE. October :>i. Fiftv-four liners and five hundred freighters are ti< d up in the harbor owing to the marine strike.