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STRIKE IN AMERICA.

SETTLEMENT EFFORTS, THE WAY BLOCKED. QUESTION OF TERMS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Aug. 13, 5.5 p.m. New York, August 12. The railway executive meeting at New York, after a protracted session, named a committee to go to Washington to confer with President Harding. While information was refused, it is believed a compromise on the President’s plan will be submitted. The Illinois coal operators* associations have adjourned their conference. They again refused to send representatives to Cleveland to meet the miners’ leaders until the latter agree to arbitration following upon the re-opening of ! the mine* under the old wage and working conditions. President Harding teleI graphed to the operators declaring their offer liberal, and stating that if the miners rejedt It th? Government must itself find some way of extricating the industry from the present difficulties. Received Aug. 13, 11.5 p.m. New York, Aug. 12. It was learned later that the railway executives’ committee will inform President Harding that they accept the proposal to end the strike with the seniority question referred to the Railway Labor Board, providing the board adheres to the July decision that the men who left work in defiance of the board cannot be regarded as employees of the railways. As, however, the shopmen insist that the seniority rights must be restored, a settlement is apparently blocked. MORE MEN OUT. TRANSPORTATION AT STANDSTILL. New York, August 11. Declaring that their live* were endangered. the engineers and firemen in important divisions of the LouisvilleNashville railway have struck. Sixty-three bombs exploded in the Santa Fe Company’s shops at San Bernardino. California. There were no casualties. Two hundred railway heads met to vote on President Harding’s proposals. It is learned that a sharp division of opinion exists. ( The Santa Fe Railway Company has I announced that no trains will leave Los ■ Angeles until the situation created by : the Brotherhood walk-out has cleared. I Utah transportation is at a standstill ’ as the result of the walk-out of the • Southern Pacific switchmen and firemen.

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Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 5

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STRIKE IN AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 5

STRIKE IN AMERICA. Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1922, Page 5

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