AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

.USTttALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SHORTER HOURS. AVASHINGTON, May 18. ' President Harding dined with the executives of the most important steel companies in the United States. He urged the voluntary abolition of the 12-hour dnv iii connection with the steel industry. He explained that there was no intention on the part of the Government to interfere with business, hut said that a great industrial revival, was now impending, and tho one hope of establishing an excessively long work-day was to do it before industry resumed in full swing. Ho said that unless the abolition were unanimous, it"was not practicable. Mr Carey recently informed the President that practically 2(3 per cent, of the steel employes worked 12 hours a day.

LYNCH LAW. NEW YORK, May 18. Two lynchinga occurred in different parts of the South to-dav. One was in Georgia, where a. young negro was burned at the stake for having robbed and killed a white post woman, and stolen her automobile. Two thousand persons witnessed the lynching. Various individuals were seen shooting at the negro while ho burned. Another negro was hung in Texas. He was arrested for an alleged attack on a white girl. A posse were sent out to find him after he escaped from prison. later they found his body hanging to a tree. I PRESIDENT ON RUSSIA'. WASHINGTON. May 18. 1 President Harding, addressing the United States Chamber of Commeerce, declared that he hn ( ] received advices from Russians that there can be no construction of the country until the Communistic idea is abolished. The Hon. Mr Hughes (Secretary of State) addressing the same body expressed similar convictions regarding Russia.

THE IRISH PROBLEM

AUSTKAI.IAN AND 5.7.. CAIII.E ASSOCIATION RIVAL (JANUS. LONDON, AI ay 18. Protestants and Roman Catholic* alike were victims of the lival murder clings in Belfast, A man was shot in the abdomen in the street and died in a few hours. Two men boarded a tram ear, and shot dead a youth sitting on the top deck. The murderers escaped though there were fiO passengers on the car. In u case, already cabled, of two flax dressers going to employment, several men took their seats behind them, and shots rang out. and then the men ran down the stairs carrying smoking revolvers. The passengers who thought the firiing came from outside. 'er,. crouching on the floor. The con lie ', ir ran upstairs and found two flax dressers huddled on the floor. BELFAST Bni.VlXibS. . (Received this dnv at 8.30 a.m.) T.ON DON, May 19. Incendiaries set on fire six ware-

houses in widely separated areas in Belfast, between seven and nine o’clock in the morning. A clothing factory was destroyed and others heavily dam. aged.