AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NEW YORK, August 11. The Santa Fe railway company announced no trains will leave Los Angeles until the situation created by the brotherhood walk-out, has been cleared. Utah transportation is at a standstill ns a result of the walk-out of the southern Pacific switchmen and firemen.

A TARIFF REVISION. WASHINGTON, August 11. An amendment to the Tariff Bill cabled August Bth. resulted in a com. promise. The amendment has beensubmitted in the Senate providing for * equalising the differences in industrial conditions abroad and in United States, in "order to fix the duty. The president shall base his decision on the cost of production instead of the conditions of competition. COAL OWNERS’ PROPOSAL. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. The Illinois Coal Operators’ Association have adjourned their mi itlng. Their conference has again refused, however, to send representatives to : Cleveland to meet the miners’ leaders | until the latter agree to the owners’ de--1 maud that Arbitration shall not precede 1 hut shall follow upon a reopening of the mines, under the old wages and working conditions. President Harding has telegraphed the operators declaring that their offer was a liberal one, and also stating that if the miners rejected it-, his Government must itself find some way of ex- _ trienting the coal industry from its present difficulties. U.S.A. RAILWAY TROUBLE. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. The Railway Company Executive have been meeting at New York. After a protracted session, they named a committee to go to Washington to confer with President Harding. While information is refused, it is believed that a compromise on President Harding’s plan for a settlement will he submitted by the companies.

TEN FATALITIES. NEW YORK, Aug 12. The deaths on the liner Adriatic now iumlier five. Three of the injured, however, are dying, and two others are not expected to live to reach port. PLAY in AMERICA. NEW YORK, Aug 12. Hagen and Kirkwood defeated Godchaux and Dunn, two up; civet* 36 hdles OIL DEPOT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug 12. The Shipping Board and Navy Department are iointly establishing a fuel oil station at Pago Pago, Samoan Islands, in anticipation of the replacement of coal burning ships on the Australian run by oil burners. TARIFF BILL. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug 12. The Senate adopted the flexibility amendment to the Tariff Bill, cabled yesterday by a vote of 36 to 20.