AMERICAN STRIKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1922, Page 5

AMERICAN STRIKE.

POSITION MORE SERIOUS. FREIGHT TIED UP. COAL FAMINE PROBABLE ■ L * By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 10, 5.5 p.m. New York, August 9. The Joliet strikers now include the engineers, conductors and maintenance-way men. These latter are striking because of the use of troops to protect railway property. Two thousand additional strikers walked out from the Elgin-Joliet railroad following the riots on August 7 (where two were killed and 30 seriously wounded). Additional Illinois militia have been sent to Joliet. A huge demonstration occurred at a striker’s funeral. The strike has new tied up the movement ’of all freight east and west, and vice versa, through Chicago, Rochester and New York. Mr. Roosevelt, in a speech, said: “A coal famine now stares us in the face. The country does not really know what such a condition will mean. The responsibility must rest with those who refused to give ear to President Harding’s efforts at a settlement.” THE STRIKE DEVELOPING. THREAT OF MORE TROUBLE. New York, August 9. The Big Four Brotherhood leaders, when informed that membershad struck at Chicago, declared that aWthe rnentbers throughout the country had been instructed to leave work if lives were endangered under the prevailing working conditions which, if not improved, will result in a general walk-out. Twen-ty-five thousand railway shopmen *in the metropolitan district, through their committee, informed Mr. Jewel that they reject President Handing’s plan for a settlement and are ready to fight to a finish. A Chicago message states that 1300 members of the Big Four Brotherhood, engineers, firemen, conductors and trainmen, refused to work unless the soldiers who had been called out as a result of the riot on August 7 were withdrawn. SYMPATHY WITH STRIKERS. Berlin August 9. The Miners’ Congress at Frankfort passed a resolution sympathising with the striking miners in the United States and recommending the national miners’ organisations to subscribe £lOOOO for their American comrades.