AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION. RETURNING TO WORK. (Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug 15. The Union Pacific railway announce a settlement with strikers on the Pacific lines, and also reports the Brotherhood members are returning to work. Mr Harding; announced lie will summon Congress within forty-eight hours and subpiit the strike situation. CANADIAN AFFAIRS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, Aug 15. Premier King ha s requested the Canadian railways to defer a reduction in wages or to restore the previous wages, pending a decision of 'Government’s Conciliation Boar Workers claimed that a reduction was made while their appeal to the Board was still pending. The Premier states there can be no guarantee of Industrial peace or preservation of law, it the parties to industrial disputes are permitted to place their own interpretation on acts which Parliament has passed, for the purpose of avoiding strikes. GREAT LOSS CAUSED.

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug toAdvices from San Francisco state that probably never in the history of the great fruit country has there developed such a terrific transportation tie up as is now effective in California. Fruit growers estimate their irretrievable losses at three millions sterlingand what will happen if the railway paralysis lasts a fortnight leaves the country aghast. Bankers as " e the growers are facing collapse. 1 San Joaquin Valley atone, forty thousand cars nre loaded and only twentysix hundred moved. Grape growers claim they wil lose four millions sterling, unless the situation clears within a week. It is estimated fifteen thousand farm labourers have been discharged by growers, who have gnen which have been staß*ed in the hot desert country, final!, —peached Los Angeles, where the prostrated passengers were removed stretchers.

(Received this day at aj».> NEW YORK, Anfftwi 13. A committee of nine striking railway union leaders together with tha of the big four brotherhoods, will meet at Washington to-day to endeavour to reopen direct negotiations with the Railway Executive. The Committee endeavoured to have Mr Harding intercede but the President it is understood, refused to the further action Soft coal strikers operators reached ~ jin agreement will lie presented to each ' side for ratification to-day. The terms have not been revealed. If ratified seventy-five thousand miners will return to work immediately. There was footing all night long between guards and strikers on the Chi-cago-Milwauke-St Paul’s railway at Green Bay, Wisconsin. No casualties

are reported. The shopmen’s leader revealed they had unanimously rejected Mr Harding’s second compromise proposal on the ground that if the seniority status of strikers is not determined it would create chaos.

A SETTLEMENT COMING. j (Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) j NEW YORK, August 13. ! A Cleveland telegram states that min- i ers and owners in Illinois, Western j Pennsylvania, Ohio, Central Michigan, , Kansas, and West Virginia have an- j nounced an agreement has been reached j . regarding a temporary wage scale, m- , der which the men will return to work. , Mr Hoover announced an immediate j (iongressional legislation was necessary i in regard to British coal to properly j ensure an equitable distribution. j

•TJ.S. TARIFF. (Received this day nt 8.30 n.m.) j WASHINGTON, 'August 15. , Stock growers Protective Association ; of Western Canada, bas appealed to • be farmers of United States to oppoic the \ proposed tariff duties on catUe. Over . ,V thirty thousand letters have been sent to American fanners and copies are going to Congressmen.

A CORRECTION. j (■Received this day at 8.30 a.m.) j NEW YORK, August 15. The statement that Willie Hunter had been barred from competing in the 'Amateur tournaments was inoorreet. , The mistake arose because another WiL j; e -gunter, a cousin of the former British champion, bad entered » professional match.