AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

•US I KALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. STRIKE SITUATION WORSE. NEW YORK, August 6. The strike situation grows more serious. Bitterness of feoling is increasing on both sides. There is the danger of the other railway unions joining the strike, making It more acute. There will be great suffering next winter. A lack of coal is foreseen, even if the coal strike is now speedily settled. Attempts were made to-day to wreck a Long Island electrical railway carrying thousands of passongers between N«w York and the suburbs. Fights occurred at Newhaven between strike breakers. Several woro seriously injured.

STRIKE RIOTS. NEW YORK. Aug 7. A Joliet, (Illinois) message, states tfrO wete killed and thirty seriously wounded in fiots at the railway shops when strikers attacked the strike breakers. A REWARD. NEW YORK, Aug 7. Railway tsrikers in New York offered one hundred dollars reward for information leading to the identity of the men who attempted to wreck the service. NEW YORK, Aug 7. The Chicago "News” Pekin correspondent states President Liv Uan hung has resigned. HOPE OF SETTLEMENT. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug V. Mr Harding after a conference with the striking railway leaders, issued a letter pointing out the seniority issue was the only obstacle to a settlement. He called on the strikers to return and the executives to assign Work. Both sides will refer the senior itt to the Railway Labour Board.