AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1920, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyrght.)

.MILLIONAIRE STRIKE BREAKERS NEW YORK, April 14.

Sanderson, manager of tlie Baldwin Locomotive Works, and J. P. Morgan, junior, are amongst prominent men assisting to keep trains moving. The former acts as driver and Morgan as

fireman. A dozen trains are marooned in a Californian desert,

RUSSIAN AID

WASHINGTON, April 14. Evidence has been received by the State Department which indicates that the Russian Communists are to finance the strike of American railway brobher-

hppdg. The United Spates Attorney Genera) has reported to the Department of Justice that he had information showing Russian Communist International is undertaking to rise the railroad strike ns a vehicle for the creation of. a mass strike in the United States. His information before Cabinet was to the effect that the Communist Party is financing and otherwise aiding the strike through the agency of the Independent Workers of the World. The evidence justified the statement that the aim was a mass strike to ho followed by a revolution. He alleged hundreds of civilians were being drilled to handle food trains, to .supply cities. A PEACE RESOLUTION. i Received This Dn\ at, 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 14. Senator McCumber has introduced a substitute to the peace resolution in which no reference js made to the Treaty or League of Nations, buj> a resumption of the commercial pre-war status between U.S. and Germany is declared, The Senator pointed out that this would leave the Senate fiee to ratify the Treaty and League without conflicting with the terms of the peace resolution. TRADE WITH RUSSIA. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 14. It is stated a commercial firm has offered to forward American goods to Russia under the British flag and that feeling in United States is intense for the resumption of trade with Russia, through the lifting of the blockade. UNCONFIRMED REPORT. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, April 14. Unconfirmed reports state an attempt was made to assassinate Carranza on April 6th.

WORKER’S POSITION. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 14. Mr Samuel Gompers in a statement at Cleveland, said the conditions of tlie workers in United -States were worse financially than before the war. It was no wonder therefore that they were '.becoming and disregarding the discipline usually practised by Labour unions. A FIGHT OFFER. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, April 14. The promoter, Mike Collins of -Minneapolis, offered Carpenfier four thousand dollars to meet -Tommy Gibbons in a ten round bout.