AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1922, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

.USTBAWAN AND N.Z. CAB[.n ASSOCIATION. STRIKE OUTLOOK RAD.Received this day at 9.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 22. A settlement of the railway strike is seemingly made more distant by the attitude of several members of the Eastern Presidents Conference meeting here. L. F. Loree (Chairman of the Conference), president of Delaware Hudson railway declared all reports intimating peace was near, were nonsense. He was supported by other Executives who were endeavouring to per- ' suade southern and western roads to - fight the strikers to a finish. Mean- ' while further walkouts are occurring, 400 trainmen having struck on the southern railway, claiming the guards menace their safety. Troops were called out At several points to subdue riotous outbreaks at An hotel at Smithfield, Pennsylvania, where strike breakers were quartered was bombed and miners, bunkhouse nearby damaged, ten persons being injured. There were fifteen arrests.

Philadelphia advises the State Conference of anthracite operators and strikers has reached a deadlock.

RISE IN WAGES. (Received this day at 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 22. United Stales Steel Corporation has announced a twenty per cent increase in wages of day labourers, to become effective on 11th. September . COMMUNISTS ARRESTED. NEW YORK, August 22. A telegram from Bridgeman, Michigan, states Eederal agents raided the National Convention of the Communist Party of America and arrested fifteen persons, including delegates, said to represent Moscow Soviet, on charges of seditious conspiracy, sixty others escaped. A mass of incendiary literature was seized which it is claimed may be connected with the strike violence.