AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. FOKKER AT WORK IN U.S.A. WASHINGTON, July 21. Fokker, the Dutch Aeroplane designer, has had a conference with President Harding and Mr Weeks, concerning bis proposal to organise a plant in this country for the development of planes for commercial and military purposes. He s a id that America offers more than any other country in its pomere than any other country in its possibilities for aviation. He has alieidy manufactured a monoplane which the War Department are rigorously testing: It is capable of flying 150 miles per hour.

ANOTHER U.S.A. FLIGHT. WASHINGTON, July 20. The U.S.A. army will attempt a trans-continental flight with a new dirigible, the C2, using helium gas, in September.

STRIKE GROWS. . . NEW YORK, July 20. The strike situation, Loth railway and mines, continues to grow litoi'c complicated. Tim Governor of Michigan, replying to Mr Harding, declared that his State was ready to take over the mines and operate them. The Pittsburg coal operators have begun the eviction of the striking miners from homes which the Companies own.

Pennsylvania has begun a movement of troops to protect the mining operations. Three more State Governors have telegraphed to Mr Harding that they are ready to protect mining operations.

The bituminous coal mine operators have petitioned the Government to begin investigations of the Herrin Massacre.

Chairman Loree, at a conference of the Eastern Railway presidents, representing forty railways, tlfeclnred . {hilt they were ready to fight, the strike to a finish. The Railroad Labour Board, hpwever, is continuing its fruitless efforts at mediation. A few hundred railway clerks and maintenance way men on the various railroads throughout the country have joined the strike. It is understood that the Government is preparing to use Shipping Board vessels, amounting to one million tons, to import coal for the seaboard industries. A national shortage of coal this winter is certain. MANITOBA ELECTIONS. OTTAWA, July 20. The Farmers’ Party have won a sweeping victory in the Manitoba Provincial Parliament elections, assuring the displacement of the Norris Liberal Government by a Farmers’ Administration. The Premier, Mr Norris, has retained his own seat. At least three of his colleagues will be defeated.