AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1927, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) COAL MINERS STRIKE. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. Although nix Slums'll ml Colorado coal minors affiliated with tho industrial workers of tho world responded to the latter’s strike order, only a part of the State’s coalfields are yet seriously affected. Governor Adams declared there is

nothing at present in the situation to cause anxiety, but he was prepared to act if an emergency arises. Strikers seek more pay and shorter hours. Tho uni tod mine workers, although in a minority in most fields, denounced the strike and attempted to carry on their usual duties. Meantime strikers are faced with an ultimatum from State and County authorities, that all pickets would lie arrested, because tho strike call was illegal. ’ HELD FOR RANDOM. (MEXICO CITY, Oct. 19. IV. E. Mitchell, a British subject, who is manager of a copper mine, is being held for ransom ! v bandits at Nayarit. They threaten to shoot him in five days time, unless they are paid five thousand pesas. The Biitisl: Minister in Mexico lias made representatives to the Foreign Office.

FAMOUS TRIAL. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19,

The Government won the first legal skirmish ,in the FalUSincluir trial when it obtained admission in spite of a defence objection of Fall’s famous letter of July, 1921, to Doheny, assorting thalt he (Fall) was then in complete charge of the Government oil reserves. The admission of this letter is a considerable blow to the defence, because tho latter had indicated it would prove othere than Fall were responsible for the naval oil policy, which finally resulted in the turning of tho reservo over to Sinclair. Earlier in tho session Martin Littleton, chief counsel for the defence, told the jury that Fall and jSincair would prove that they were prompted by patriotic motives and acted in the interests of national defence, when they signed the Teapot Dome lease. Littleton asserted they would disprove the prosecutions claim that Fall received bonds from Sinclair after the lease was granted.