AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1923, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS.

tCSTHAMAN AND N .7.. CABLE ASSOCIATIN’. COAL ST I! IK H ENDING. {Received Ojjs day at 8 a.m.j NEW YORK, Sept. 8. A message from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, states anthracite operators unci union leaders to-night signed a netv wage agreement which requuos i only ratification by the union scale < committee to end the strike of one c hundred and fifty thousand miners. 1 STRIKE. 'ENDS. j NEW YORK September 8. | At Harrisburg the wage contract, tlie. ratification of which will insuio a resumption of anthracite mining m Dulled States virtually reached completion to-day, after the miners operators lie reed on the terms of settlement o. the strike cabled on August 31- the miners will receive an increase in wages aggregating thirty two million do law annually. They renounced the check off, and operators agree to an eig.U hour working day. CANADIAN PROTEST. OTTAWA, September 8. Attacks by Americans on Canadian schooners off United States Coast will he made the subject of joint representations by the Dominion and Nova Scotia to United States authorities. It is alleged pirates board the ruin runners, loot the cargoes and dl treat the crows who are unmolested by I nded States authorities. It i* held by Canadian officials that the boats are entitled to protection, as tliey are engaged in a legal business according to Canadian law. STEAMER WRECKED. /Received this day at 8 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 9. •According to a telegram from Los Angelos, the eight thousand ton 1 aeific mail liner, Cuba, grounded on a reef at San Miguel island and ‘•w “«* ™, ta™"En saved aad ate aboard the United States destroyer, Reno.