AMERICAN STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1922, Page 5

AMERICAN STRIKE.

600,000 MINERS INVOLVED. PUMP MEN REMAIN. GOVERNMENT NOT INTERFERING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received April 2, 5.5 p.m. New York, April 1. The miners strike began at midnight. It is estimated that six hundred thousand men obeyed the order, five hundred thousand being union members, and the balance non-union members. The strikers left the pumpmen, engineers and firemen at the mines. At various mines in West Virginia, Kentucky, Colorado, and Alabama the men refused to strike. The walk-out ‘extends to Western Canada, but in Eastern Canada the men are remaining at work. The United States has nine weeks’ coal stocks on hand. The strikers on the anthracite fields demand a twenty per cent, increase, and the bitumenous workers want changed working conditions. Many railway workers will probably be affected if the strike continues. The Government has announced it will not interfere unless a public emergency arises.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A SENATOR’S VIEWS. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP POSSIBLE. Received April 2, 11.30 p.m. Washington, April 1. Senator Borah, chairman of the Senatorial Labor Committee, declared that unless the coal industry is re-organised in the interests of the public,' the only solution of the problem may be Government ownership of the mines. He added that the public would no longer submit to the present operation, and that the committee was preparing to take action in the strike. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DISLOCATION IN AMERICA. New York, March 31. While the coal strike will not be effective officially until midnight, thousands of miners in twenty States left the mines thia morning, and half a million are expected to be out before midnight. The Government has abandoned hope of arranging a settlement. It will afford protection to miners remaining at work, but otherwise will be neutral. — Aus.-N-Z. Cable Assn. SOVIET METHODS. HOSTAGES FOB. DELEGATES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 2, 11.30 p.m. Riga, April 1. The Petrograd police have arrested many foreigners who will be held as hostages for the safety of the Russian delegates at the Genoa Conference.