STRIKE IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1922, Page 5

STRIKE IN AMERICA.

OUTLOOK STILL SERIOUS. INDUSTRY DISLOCATED. FIGHTING THE STRIKERS. By Telegraph.—Press Asen.—Copyright. Received Aug. 5, 12.5 a.m. New York, August 3. Few miners responded to the call to work the Indiana mines. The Pittsburg coal region reports slightly increased production under President Harding’s suggestion that the State Governors should protect strike-break-ers. Several Michigan industries have been compelled to close down their plants for lack of coal. The Great Lakes steanfship lines are reducing their passenger schedules for the same reason. What is considered an important step toward peace is an announcement by Mr. Waringer, president of the anthracite coal operators of Pennsylvania, to accept Mr. Lewis’ invitation to a conference. An indication of the coat of the railway strike to the railways is seen in an announcement that one eastern line is losing a million dollars monthly. The eastern railway executives have announced that quotas of skilled shopmen will be sent immediately to the southern railroads in order to help in the resumption of normal freight and coal traffic from the great non-union coalfields, which are hardest hit by the railroad strike. Equipment will also be sent. It is hoped thereby to eliminate possible action by the Government. Mr. Manion, president of the railway telegraphists’ union, has sent letters to the heads of twelve railway unions who are not striking suggesting a meeting to discuss the growing tendency to involve their men in the shopmen’s strike and consider possible strike action. • It is announced the Ford automobile plants will be compelled to shut in a fortnight unless large coal shipments are obtained immediately. Various other automobile manufacturers are dependent upon him. Gas supplies are also tied up. ’ The railroads entering Chicago announced that last week they added. 15,259 shopworkers, and men were joining the force at the rate of fifteen hundred daily. Eleven States are now using more than four thousand troopers on strike duty protecting, employees who remain at work in. the mines.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

DISORDER AND OUTRAGES. TROUBLE IN VARIOUS CENTRES. ! i New York, August 3. Strike disorders are reported in various centres. .Scores were injured in a riot at Jackson, Michigan, when the strikers attacked the police. A woman led the mob, throwing red pepper into the eyes of the police. Fifteen arrests were made. Three Des Moines strike-breakers were kidnapped, stripped and commanded to jump into the river. They made a break for liberty, escaping unhurt amid a fussilade of shots. An employee in the Chicago railway shop was beaten to death by strikers. At Buffalo one striker was killed and two seriously injured. A tramway motorman was burned by acid during a riot resulting from the tramway strike. No further strike settlement moves have been made by the President, who is evidently awaiting developments. It is officially indicated that President Harding under his emergency powers has authority to institute receivership proceedings'against the railways and mines and operate them through Federal receivers, which might be done if the strikes continue.