UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16590, 12 November 1919, Page 3

UNITED STATES.

MINERS’ STRIKE ENDED. CODIIT ORDER TO BE OBEYED. - By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Nov. 12, 9.10 a.m-) WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The miners' strike has collapsed and the workers have decided to comply with tho Government order. The president of the mine-workers at Indianopolis said it was impossible to fight the Government; tho only course was to comply with the court’s order.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DEPORTATION OF RUSSIANS. WHO ARE PLANNING REVOLUTION. VANCOUVER, Nov. 8. The United States Department of Justice states that a Union of Russian Workers has been organised by William Szatow, chief of police at Potrograd, for a revolution and tho overthrow of the United States Government. The union has 60 “locals” and 70,000 active members, all pledged to overthrow the Government. The last convention was hold in New York on January 10. Propaganda is carried on in every part of America through the newspapers and paid agitators. At Newark (New Jersey) Federal rakiors captured a complete counterfeiting plant, with which it was planned to manufacture money for a Bolshevik regime. Bundles of bank notes ready for circulation were secured, Tlie latest haul of the union members includes 600 men and women, who were taken with red Hags, revolvers, and tons of pamphlets. All those arrested are to be deported.— Reuter Service. WASHINGTON, Nov. S. It is announced that tho Department of Justice will urge the deportation of all Radicals seized throughout tho nation. Judge Palmer, in a statement, said this is tho first big stop to rid the country of these foreign trouble-makers. Other raids will bo made.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SENATE AND PEACE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. Tho Senate refused to replace in Article Ten of tho Peace Treaty a reservation keeping out the United States, and rejected an amendment under Which tho United States is not to ho bound by Article Ton. The Senate also defeated a modification of the reservations provision authorising Congress to decide questions by the uso of force.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. VANCOUVER, Nov. 8. The United States Senate adopted a reservation providing that in the event of America desiring to withdraw from tho League of Nations sho shall be tho solo judge whether her obligations under the covenant have been fulfilled. —Reuter Service. OIL-BURNING STEAMERS. NEW YORK, Nov. 8. It is reported that several of the larger steamship companies plan to convert their vessels into oil burners in older to avert tho fuel difficulties which are tho result of coal shortages. It is estimated tho conversion will affect 1750 vessels and save 2-10,000,000 tons of coal annually.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BUNKER. COAL OBTAINABLE. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. It is announced that vessels flying a foreign flag will now obtain - hunker coal at American ports in order to relievo tho congestion of goods for ex-port.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. FARMERS AND LABOUR. WASHINGTON. Nor. 8. Tho Farmers’ National 'Council will confer with Labour on November 21 to formulate a legislative reconstruction programme.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. A GREAT RAID. ON ANARCHIST HEADQUARTERS. (Received Nov. 12, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 9. Seven hundred policemen and State and Federal agents raided 73 Radical headquarters in the Metropolis, arrested 600 persons, and seized tons of literature. Tho Radicals arrested included Jim Larkin, tho Irish agitator. Tho majority of those arrested were charged with criminal anarchy. Senator Lusk, who had charge of the Radical raids in the city, in a statement said: “Wo have established the fact that the Communist Party in the United States received substantial contributions here and from abroad. The Communist movement, however, started in Germany, not in Russia. It has been complete]}' determined that tho Red Government of Russia was established by 500 Radicals whom Germany shipped, via Switzerland, to Russia. These were the organisers of tho Red GuaTds and gave many Russian securities.” Later it was announced that, _ although more than a thousand Radicals had been arrested in New York, only 35 had been detained and charged with criminal anarchy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMME. BRIEF BUT EFFECTIVE. (Received Nov. 12, 9.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The Department of Justice has published a document approved by the Federation of the Union of Russian Workers of the United States, which is fathering the Radical movement. It states that the proletariat must convert small strikes into general ones and the latter into an armed revolt of tho labouring masses against capital and the State. The workers must immediately seize all means of production and all articles of consumption and make the working classes masters of all the general wealth. They must mercilessly destroy all the remains of Governmental authority and class domination, liberate the prisoners, demolish the prisons, kill police officers, destroy all legal papers pertaining to the private ownership of property, all field fences and boundaries, all certificates of in-

dehtedness, and shoot prominent police and military officers. They must establish city communes which later will combine into an international federation <jf communes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SALE OP GOVERNMENT SHIPS. TO PRIVATE FIRMS. (Received Now. 9.10! a.m.) AVASHINGTON, Nov. 9. .• The House passed a Bill providing for tho immediate sale to private American interests of all vessels built by tho Shipping Board and Emergency Fleet Cor poration during the war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONFERENCE CALLED. ON MINERS’ WAGES'. I (Received Nov. 12, 10.30 a.m.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 11. Mr. Wilson (Labour secretary) lias called a conference of miners and employers’ for the purpose of negotiating a wage agreement.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.