AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

»C3TRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AMERICAN STRIKE. GREAT TROUBLE FEARED. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 27. The Coroner’s jury at Herrin who aer believed to be under Union Miners’ influence, found that tlie officials of a mine owned by Southern Illinois Coni . Coy were guilty] of the death of two striking union miners, killed during the massacre, while the death of soiiiO sixteen other non-union Strike breakers was declared to l:c due to unknown 'causes. The local union is not di.inclined to disclaim its acts, although no official utterance has been made. Individual members of the Union. are inclined to boast of the. acts, pointing out what will happen to non-union strikebreakers, if they again attempt to break up the strike. Farrington (President Illinois Federation of Miners) of which Herrin > Union is a unit, lias issued a statej ment which generally condemns vio-. lenee. on the ground that it will dis- | credit the Union movment and possibly destroy the United Aline Workers of America, of which the Federation is a State Unit. Tt appears a greater number of dead and wounded were either mine guards of the strike, breakers or their family ties. It is said the. strike themselves belong to the steam shovellers’ Union which is not recognised by the American Federation- of Labour. This renders the situation uncomfortable. Aline officials have asked the authorities for protection in removing . the injured . non-union .workers, who arc in hospitals, to Chicagbj. in otdef to safeguard them. They will be psefl as witnesses at tlie coming investigation of the tragedy. ■ Aline officials declare they received threats from Union miners that any attempt to remove the wounded will mean further violence. Pittsburg reports that two hundred armed striking union miners marched through the mine district near that city, threatening to kill non-union miners. They succeeded in shutting down four mines by terrorising the strike breakers.

CHINESE DANGERS. NEW YORK, June 28

Despatches from Shanghai and Hong Kong state the British Consul-General at Canton instructed British residents in Slinmien foreign settlement of .Canton to arm themselves, in expectation of a resumption of the bombardment by Sun Yat Sen’s forces, 1