AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 July 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

DSTKALIAN AND N.Z. (.AilLfi ASSOCIATION

labour in u.s.a. NEW YORK, July 10

Point Marion, in Pennsylvania, reports that two striking miners were killed, and one badly wounded in pitched battles between the coal strikers and the deputy sheriffs protecting mine property there. The American Federation of Labour is taking active steps to head off an attempt by the Communist Party to obtain the book-keepers, stenographers, and accountants’ unions, and various sub-unions in the garment trades and in New York city-. . WASHINGTON, .Tidy 10. President Harding and Hon "Weeks (Secretary 'for War) have held a consultation regarding reports that mails are held up in various parts of the west, owing to the strike of railwaymen. The United States Marshalls have been instructed to protect the mails, and to further their despatch at all costs. ' President Harding addressed the deadlocked conference of mine operators and strikers. He proposed a Federal Aritration Commission to settle the strike, composed of three members representing the owners, three representing the work »rs, and five l-epesent-iifg the public. The commisson, he said, could establish a wage scale, the miners meanwhile returning to wick.