BIG STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1922, Page 5

BIG STRIKE.

VIOLENCE IN AMERICA. troops called out. TERRORISM RIFE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. New York, July 8. The railway strike has assumed serious proportions, following on the killing of a boy during a fight between the strikers and railway property guards at Clinton, Illinois. The State troops have been called out. Four other States, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska and lowa, are holding troops in readiness. Violence has been renewed by the strikers at several points throughout the country, particularly in Chicago and New Orleans. Terrorism of the workers and suspected strike-breakers is alleged to be rife. Warrants have been sworn out in the Kansas Industrial Court for the arrest of three union heads for calling the strike. Railroad operations are curtailed on several lines because of the shortage of men. Fruit shipments in the west axe menaced owing to the extension of the strike to the employees at ice plants along the main routes. MINERS’ TROUBLE. TROOPS TO PROTECT PROPERTY. New York, July 8. The mine officials at Madisonville asked the Governor of Kentucky for troops to prevent trouble at Madisonville. where non-union men are employed. The Governor of Ohio has circularised local authorities in the mining districts where non-union workers are operating, declaring that they will be held to strict account if they do not safeguard life and property in the event of attack by strikers. The State troops are mobilised and held in readiness for use, only if the local authorities are unable to cope with the situation.