AMERICAN ITEMS.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. U.S.A. STRIKES NEW YORK, Aug 21. In the United States House of Re presentatives, Mr AVinslow, after a conference with President Harding, in traduced a Bill to create a Fact-find-ing Coal Commission, of nine members of the House.
A cording to a Presidential recommendation, no congressman who is interested in coal is to he allowed to serve.
The Commission’s tenure office is to last for one year, and the expenditure on it to he limited to half a million dollars.
It will investigate the ownership of the mines, the prices of coal, wages, wage contracts, the profits of the mine operators and of the coal distributors. The Commissioners will report and make recommendations by New Year.
GREAT FIGHT. TELLING NEW YORK, Aug 22. Mr Samuel Gompers (Head of the U.S.A. Labour Federation) appeals to Organised Labour, urging the fullest moral and financial support to the striking railway shopmen. He states that the resistance of the .railways lias boyn stronghened by powerful forces that are seeking to crush the trade unions. He says that the future of organised labour m America depends on the outcome of this strike.
The strikers, says Mr Gompers, are endeavouring to secure a Bring wage for the maintenance of the American standard of living, also reasonable working oonditons, and the right of organisation. ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1922, Page 2
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