STRIKE IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1922, Page 5

STRIKE IN AMERICA.

SOVIET AGENTS BUSY, REVOLT DEVELOPING. SOME GRAVE FEATURES. W TeiegTApd.—Assn.—Copyrlfkt. _ New York, August I'2The Washington correspondent of the y ew York Times states that Soviet document* in the possession of the Department oL Justice disclose that Red I agent* in tne United States have instructions to take advantage of the present industrial erisi* and strikes to make an effort to paralyse the country’s life and •bore the Labor union* from ■within so as to stir up a revolution. Five bombs exploded in the Southern Pacific railway yards at Roseville, California. The guards fired in the direction of the explosions and the fire was returned by unknown persons. The Western Pacific is the third transcontinental line to suffer, being tied up by the Big Foor Union men walking out. Services on the Louisville-Nashville railroad have been suspended owing to the walk -out of the engineers and fire- j The threatened ‘strike of Big Four j men on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. ; Paul railroad ha* been averted, the j owners and men having reached an. agreement. The Big Four Brotherhoods have protested to Mr. Lewis against miners at- ! tacking trains manned bv brotherhood member? STRANDED IN DESERT. Motor caravans are being formed to rescue passengers from trains stranded in the middle of California desert since yesterday, when the train crews left them. Coal production in the nineteenth week of the strike was 4.800,000 tons, or half a million more than in the oreviou* week, but five million tons below normal. “A high position but no funds”: That is the status of Mr. Pelham Barrows. Lieutenant-Governor of the State of Nebraska, who is also working at five dollars a day as strike guard for the Burlington railroad. -Being Lieutenant-Governor.” he said, i “has honor but no remuneration, and I took new work when Mrs. Barrows found that we had 340 cents in the bank and I had 110 rents in my pocket without another cent in the world. I had to take this work since I could not get < any other and my wife and I were down I and out.” The Lieutenant-Governor, under the Nebraska law. receives no remuneration save a* presiding officer <£ the State Assembly. For this be receives 1200 dollars during the biennia] cessions, but when acting in the absence of the Governor he should receive the emolu ! ments of that office. The last Assem- j bly, however, rejected the Appropria- j tion Bill providing for that, and there are no funds to meet Barrows’ claim | for 1800 dollars for serving as ActingGovernor recently. IS IT REVOLUTION? The Federal Attorney-General, Mr. Daugherty, following on a conference with President Harding, telegraphed to the United States Attorney for California to ascertain whether the abandonment of certain passenger trains in the desert, resulting in great inconvenience to the passenger* and the hold-up of mails, was due to a conspiracy to interfere with inter-State commerce, in which caee he is to present the matter immediately to the Grand Jury with a view to the prosecution of the guilty parties. The Canadian Minister of Labor, Mr. Murdock, speaking at Vancouver, said the United State* Railroad Labor Board was trying to force compulsory arbitration down the throats of Labor, compelling them to defy the United States ’The strike situation in the United States.” Mr Murdock declared, “is revolution in the g of a strike. The board would compel men to work under conditions under which they are reluctant to work, and this is something 1 Labor will not tolerate.” Seven carloads of the west-board mail from the east are reported tied up on the Santa Fe railroad in Arizona. The transcontinental mails are now uncerPassengers by some trains are held up in the desert, but some passengers who were left at the desert station* became so ill from the terrible heat that the train crews in several instances relented and brought the trains into the cooler coastal regions. FIGHT TO A FINISH. ATTITUDE OF RAILWAYMEN. Received August 14, 8.45 p.m. Washington, August 14. The railway executive’s committee left the capital after the rejection of President Harding* proposal for a settlement of the strike. They declare they are prepared to fight to the finish and do not expect further Government effort to arrange a compromise. The railway labor organisations will confer this morning and the four big brotherhoods will continue mediation efforts.