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IOSTRAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. COURSE OF STRIKE. ' COST OF THE UPHEAVAL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK. Aug 3. A few miners responded to the call to work Indiana mines.
Pittsburg coal region reports a slightly increased production under Mr Harding’s suggestion that state Governments protect the strike breakers. Several Michigan are compelled to close down, tlieir plants for hick of coal. The Great Lake s steamship lines are reducing passenger schedules for the same reason. What is considered an important step towards peace, is an announcement hv Waringer, President of the Anthracite coal operators of Pennsylvania ,to accept Lewis’ invitation to a conference, cabled on Ist. An indication of the cost of the railway strike to railways is seen in an announcement that one eastern line is losing a million dollars monthly. The Eastern Railway Executives announced that quotas of their skilled shopmen will be sent immediately to southern railroads in order to help a resumption of normal freight and coal traffic from the Great Non-Union coalfields, which are the hardest hit by the railway strike. Equipment will also be sent. It is hoped thereby to eliminate possible action by the Government.
Manion, President of the Railway Telegrnyliists Union sent letters to the heads of twelve railway unions',, who are .not striking, suggesting a .meeting to discuss the growing tendency to involve their .men in the shopmen’s strike and to consider possible strike action. It is announced the Ford Automobile plant will be compelled to shut in a fortnight, unless large coal shipments are obtained immediately. Variou s other automobile manufacturers are dependent upon him. Gas sup-, plies are also tied up. Railroads entering Chicago announced that last week they added 15,259 shopworkers and men were joining forces at the rate of fifteen hundred daily. Eleven States are now using more than four thousand trooper s on strike duty, protesting employees who - remain at work in the mines.
PETROL PRICES. (Received this day at 9.59 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug 4, Petrol prices are reduced two cents. Eastern States are now twenty-seven cents wholesale,
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 August 1922, Page 2
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