U.S.A. STRIKES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1922, Page 2

U.S.A. STRIKES.

NEW YORK, August 26. Maiding intends waiting for days to S ee what steps the railways will take to meet the situation caused by the collapse of the peace negotiations in the strike, after which, if nothing is done to improve the service, he will ask Congress to seize the lines. . Senator Edge has introduced a resolution in the Senate, empowering the President to seize the mines immediate. ]y NEW YORK, August 26. The “Detroit Telegraph” ' states Mr Henry Ford has announced that he will close'his plants on September 16, owing to the coal shortage.

RAIL STRIKE UNSETTLED. NEW YORK, August 35. Negotiations to end the railway t strike have collapsed. The disagreement was due to the Roads flatly refusing to reside seniority.

RECAPTURE of CONVICTS. NEW YORK, August 26. One of the most remarkable manhunts in the history of the State ended to-dayi when sheriff’s posses, after a search on horse back, motors and uemplanes. captured four convicts, who escaped on August 17 from South J kota Penitentiary. The convicts were speeding in a stolen motor-car Towards the famous “Bad Land” wilderness, where they hoped to find an asylum. When they were met by a sheriff’s posse, a battle ensued. One convict was killed, and one sheriff was mortally wounded and captured, and the last convict escaped in the woods, where he is now virtually surrounded. j

U.S.A. ASPIRATION. NEW YORK, Angus 26. Phillip Kerr, addressing the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, said: “The Pritish Commonwealth cannot last indefinitely in its present form. It will be replaced, and. by greater things, if the world is to progress towards unity and peace. Somebody has suggested that I wish the United States would join the British Commonwealth. T do not, for if it did, a nation of 110 million would simply swallow one of forty millions. Ttie great national cultures of France, lalv, Britain tShe United States, Germany, Russia, and Japan differ profoundly. You cannot get them to merge their national identities in any vague cosmopolitan patriotism. There is no possibility, and there ought not to be, of creating a world national oil tlic model of any national state now existing. The Federal Government and Congress, can give no orders to any individual State. Each is independent in its own sphere. There it seems to me, is the key of tjie whole problem.” *