American Strike

Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1922, Page 3

American Strike

POSITION .MOST SERIOUS

AUnTHaUAN .INI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOC. ..AON (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 8. The railway strike lias assumed serious proportions, following on the killing of a hoy during a light between strikers and railway property guards at Clinton Illinois. State troops are being called out for other States. Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and lonia are holding troops in readiness. Violence lias been renewed hy tin. . strikers at several points throughout the country, particularly in Chicago „-| New Orleans. Th* terrorism <>• workers and suspected strike-breakers is alleged to he rife. Warrants have been sworn out in Kansas industrial court for the arrest of three union heads for calling the strike. Railroad operations are curtailed on several lines, because ot the shortage of men. Fruit shipments m the west are menaced, owing to the extension of the strike to employees at the ice plants along, the mam routes. The Governor of Ohio circularised the local authorities in tlie mining districts where non-union workers are operating, declaring they will he lie 1 to strict account d they lo not saleguard life and property in the event ot an attack by strikers The State troops are mobilized and will he held in readiness for use only if the local authorities are unable to cope with th situation.