AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1919, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Co weight.) AMERICAN STRIKES. NEW YORK, October 13. There is a strike of teamsters and chauffeurs in New York. It has dislocated the entire railway services of the city. Eleven thousand men have struck. 'iiie wharf strike has extended all {'iong the 'Atlantic seaboard. The small craft in the harbour of New York are idle, the crews striking.

U.S. STEEL STRIKE. NEW YORK, October 13. The “Times” Pittsburg correspondent states that at the beginning of the fourth week of the steel strike, both sides claim a win. The employers in all districts claim a complete victory, and state that the backbone of the strike has been broken. The Labour leaders counter claim that their forces are still Virtually intact and there have only been a few desertions.

WORKERS DENOUNCE' CAPITALISTS. new YORK, October 13. A despatch from Tokio states that Japanese Labour circles have protested against the Alleged interference of the Government in the selecting of representatives for the ranks of Japanese Labour as delegates to attend the international 'Labour Congress at Washington. They contend that capitalistic influence dominated the Convention held to select the Labour delegates.

LATE RAILWAY STRIKE

NEW YORK, October 14. Mr John Greeley Jenkins, former premier of South Australia, and now a British delegate to th e international Trade Conference, in an interview said that-the outcome of the British railway strike showed that th.e Government, and not the strikers must be supreme. The affair, he declared, had if anything, strengthened Mr Lloyd George with a great majority of Labour people in England, as the antiBolshevik and Red Fed propaganda had not been given an opportunity to secure a foothold.

STEEL STRIKE, • 'Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 14. A telegram from Chicago states the Federal troops are controlling Gary, Indiana, the centre of -the steel strike. The authorities arrested an alleged hombmaikcr. It .is Relieved lie sent, bombs to Mitchell Palmer, the Attorney General and a number of Judges in May last. A dozen prisoners arrested at Gary are confined in a stockade. A press censorship has been established