AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

IUSTRALIAN ANU N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. GOMPERS VIEWS. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Tlie President of the American Federation of Labour, Mr S. Goinpers, speaking at Philadelphia, said that tlie recent injunction enforced against tlie railwaymen’s unions (as cabled on September 1) is a violation of the Constitution of the laws of the’ land. Tlie Government has exorcised a power that lias never been dreamed of in the history of the Republic. The injunction is wrong in principle and in fact and, it is a confession that the shopmen nearly won the strike.”

Air Gmnpers urged the unions to furnish aid to support the women and children of the strikers. The men, he said, must fight and take care of themselves. He added:—“Roth President Harding and Hon Mr Dougherty (Cabinet Minister) are advocating legislation to bring about compulsory labour. Thus, the party of Abraham Lincoln, which freed the slaves, is now trying to force compulsory labour upon the whites and the blacks!”

SWIMMING RECORDS. NEW YORK. Sent. 5. A fifteen-year-old girl, Miss Rdcrle., swimming in a 75 foot pool at New York, has set five new wrold’s records, vi".: Five hundred yards in 375 l-ssecs; 440 yards in 354 3-osecs; 400 metres in 353 1 Msecs; 400 yards in 322 2-ssecs ; and 300 yards in 238 2-ssccs. 'NEW YORK, September 4. At Brookline, tbo Britishers qualifying for international golf singles are Tolley 148, Torrance 157, Aylmer 150. Guildford (an American) leads with 144. Other Britishers, Caven (164), Wotliered (104), and Mackenzie (166), failed to qualify. Warwin and Hooman withdrew without completing the second 18 holes.