STRIKES IN AMERICA.
PITCHED BATTLES WITH STRIKERS. [Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, July 10. Point Marion, Pennsylvania, reports fhn|. two striking miners were lulled and one badly wounded in pitched battles between strikers ;uid' deputy-sheriffs protecting mine property.
The American Federation of Labor is taking active stepsi to head off an attempt by the Communist party to obtain control of a number of unions which have revoked their charters, including Bookkeepers, Stenographers, ami Accountants' Unions, and various, subunions in the garment trades in Now Vork Citv. WASHINGTON, -Inly 10. President. Harding and Mr Week's, Secretary for War. held a consultation regarding reports that mails were held up in various parts of the West owing to the .strike of railwaymen. United Slates marshals have been instructed to protect tho mails and further their despatch at all costs.
President Harding afldres&od the "deadlocked" conference of mine operators and strikers and proposed a Federal Arbitration Commission composed of three members representing the owners, three representing the workers, and five representing the public, the Commission tr> estoblk.fi the wage scale, the miners meanwhile returning to work.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15873, 12 July 1922, Page 5
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