AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 September 1923, Page 2

AMERICAN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. NO MORNING PAVERS. STRIKE TX NEW YORK CITY. NEW YORK, Sept. 18 New York city this morning is without a single newspaper. This is duo to a suspension of work by the pressmen without a moment’s notice. All the men walking out from tlie press rooms at 12.30 o’clock in the morning, after stating that their Union had decided upon a walkout at a secret meeting, without informing the proprietors. This action arises front a long-stand-ing dispute between tlie Union and the press operators more than two years ago. An arbitrator, in deciding the dispute between tlie parties, granted an increase in wages and an eight-hour day. The pressmen, however, demanded that after the papers were run off the presses, and there was nothing for them io do, they should be permitted to go home, even though their eight hours’ time had not yet been completed.

The publishers declared that, since they paid for eight hours’ labour, they had a right to demand the presence of pressmen, even if they were idle, especially with the possibility of extra editions.

The pressmen to-night indulged in sabotage, stripping all the presses of the stereotyped plates that had been made during the early evening, just before quitting the pressrooms. The New York “Times” hopes to secure a very limited edition, possibly of eight pages.

The Superintendent of the mechanical department will be running the press, and the journalists will he setting up tlie type.

A BIG FIR*. NEW YORK, Sept. 17 At Berkley, two students of the Ur' versity California were killed, and hundreds of houses were destroyed and property valued at several million dollars was lost in a fire which consumed six city blocks. Owing to a high wind rho fire threatened the whole city. It was several hours before the wind fell and the fire was controlled. CROSSING NORTH POLE. XE WORK, Sept. 17. A message from Seattle states Captain Amundsen lias arrived there from the Arctic. He has confirmed the previous announcement that lie will again ntenipt an airplane flight across the North Pole, starting at Spitsbergen next summer. His ship, the Maud, has planned to drift with the Arctic ice pack past the North Pole. She was moving slowly northward, and should complete the drift in three years. She is now in latitude 7fi degrees north. She is in wireless touch with Spitzberge*. ENCOURAGING MURDER. NEW YORK, Sept. IS In connection with his fight against the Klu Klux Klan the Governor of Oklahama has declared that there was a pardon waiting for every man who killed a masked marauder. His foes were now seeking to impeach him. Martial law continues throughout the Slate.