AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

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MEN’S EXECUTIVE. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 10. X Cleveland message states while the presidents of the brotherhoods of locomotive engineers, firemen, enginemen, advised members to leave work it t cir lives were endangered by guards or de-fectiv-J equipment, the president of the train men’s brotherhood telegraphed to members asking them not to strike, but to refer complaints to the executive committee whioh will investigate and decide. At Indiana, Pennsylvania, twenty-five members of the central Pennsylvania coal operators Association declined to attend the Cleveland Conference.

CANADIAN NEWS(Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) OTTAWA August 10.

Fifty American railway engines in a crippled condition are proceeding to Montreal for repairs. It is believed Canadian workmen will refuse to work on them.

Government has authorised the apnppointment of a Canadian Trade Commission to Russia.

A GRAVE DISASTER. f (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 10. The American consul at Swatow estimated the typhoon casualties will amount to fifty thousand. Over one ~ hundred thousand are homeless. ( R TRAINS FIRED ON. fi (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) t, NEW YORK, August 10. , At Cleveland, brotherhood leaders • were notified that trains operated hv members were fired on by coal striko j sympathisers all along the line from Kentucky coalfields to Chicago. AMERICAN TARIFF. i (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 10With the Senate debating the flexiblo tariff provision in McCumber’s Bill, the Finance Committee offered an amendment providing within sixty days of the Act’s passage that the President after ascertaining the differences .in competitive conditions abroad and United States, lie may lower or ‘advance the rates set on any article, providing the total increase or decrease docs not exceed fifty per cent ad valorem. Senators Frelinghuysen and .Tones submitted amendments creating commissions to frame tariffs on a strictly scientific basis, ‘eliminating what each termed unsound political influence.