AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1922, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

•NOixvioossY snnvo -z'n onv xvnvuisav W.S. AND STRIKE. NEW YORK, Sept. 11. At Chicago, the Hon Mr Dougherty (Attorney-General) presented a petition asking that a "temporary injunction that has been granted against tho railway strikers, he made a permanent one. The Attorney-General introduced a mass of evidence to support .which he made charge of a gigantic plot, involving sabotage and terrorism, on the part of railway strikers. He included it is said, 25 charges Of murder; oth-Ai of tampering with sixty railroad cars, burning 14 bridges and damaging many < locomotives. The Attorneys who are representing the strikers were subjected to a rebuff, when the judge (Wilkerson) who had already granted the temporary -in- -r " junction, rejected the workers’ attorney’s request to lie allowed to present their arguments on their motion to dismiss the injunction, before Mr Dougherty was allowed to argue for niakino- tinr injunction a permanency. WASHINGTON, Sent. 11 In the U.S.A. House of Representatives, Mr Keller (representative for Minnesota) has introduced a motion calling for the impeachment of Mr Dougherty (Attorney-General) on the ground that his, injunction- against the : railway strikers violates the constitu- ! lion of the United States. NEW YORK, Sept. 11 Tlie Eastern States’ railways have put an embargo on all freights, except foodstuffs, for the purpose of facilitating the distribution of coal in the Eastern States, where a coal famine this winter is likely.

I FORD FACTORIES ORDER. | NEW YORK, Sept. 11 i • A message from Detroit states: Mr ' Henry Ford has issued orders to the ' 7() 000 workmen at his automolnl works there forbidding them to use i intoxicating liquor, on P am , missal witlibut appeal. Mr lora savsi “The 18th aiiiefidmdijt is part of - I the fundamental law of tin? coun r\. H was meant to be enforced hough I oolitics have interfered with its fn 1 forccment. So far as our organisation i is concerned, however, it is going to be I enforced to the letter. ! KIPLING’S OUTBURST, i new YORK, September 11., _ I \ sensation was caused by the publication in the “New York World” of an interview ■ with Rudvard Kipling by Clare Sheridan, the sculptress, and the j “World’s” European correspondent, in which Kipling was represented as bitterly attacking the United States.. He said: “They have the gold'of the world but we saved our souls. No one of us who has lost a son would change with them for their prosperity. The United States ceased to be a nation after the civil war. They came into the 1 war two years too late, and hastened - the armistice, when the Allies were j about to gain a complete victory over I the enemy. . Senators, various generals, including Pershing and the members of Mr Hoarding’s Cabinet, have expressed resent- ! ment against Kipling’s statement, i The newspapers editorially condemn 1 the novelist’s political activity. They I point to the United States’* sacrifice for victory, and lament the' attack j upon Anglo-American friendship which is tlie bulwark of civilisation.