STRIKES IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5

STRIKES IN AMERICA.

SETTLEMENT OBSTACLES. PEACE NOT NEAR. THE POSITION WORSE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. New York, August 22. The settlement of the railway strike has seemingly been made more distant by the attitude of several members of the Eastern Presidents’ Conference, which is meeting here. Mr. J. L. Loree, chairman of t the conference, who is president of the Delaware and Hudson railway, declared that all reports intimating that peace was near were nonsense. He was supported by the other executives, who are endeavoring to persuade the southern and eastern roads to fight the strikers to a finish. * Meanwhile further walk-outs have occurred. Four hundred trainmen have struck on the Southern Railway, claiming that the guards menace their safety. Troops have been called out at several points to subdue the riotous outbreaks at meetings. The hotel at Smithfield, Pennsylvania, where the strike-breakers are quartered, has been bomjjfd, and the miners’ bunkhouse nearby damaged. Ten were injured. Fifteen arrests have been made. Philadelphia advices state that the conference of anthracite operators and strikers has reached a deadlock. , A DEADLOCK. STRIKERS REFUSE ARBITRATION. Received Aug. 23, 9.35 p.m. New York, August 23. The negotiations between the anthracite mine-operators and strikers ended in a deadlock, the strikers refusing to accept arbitration. One important railroad, the-Baltimore-Ohio, has signed an agreement with the clerks and freight-handlers decreasing the Railway Lafior Board’s wage reductions.

PROPOSED JOINT COMMISSION. TO MAKE INVESTIGATIONS. Received Aug. 23, 9.30 p.m. Washington, Aug. 23. The Senate Labor Committee favorably reported on the Bill for the creation of a coal commission, and empowering President Harding to choose representatives of mine-operators, miners, or the public as be sees fit. The Bill provides for five members at a salary of 7500 dollars each. The commission will make a complete investigation of the costs, profits and working conditions in the mines, and will report on the advisableness of nationalising the coal industry, also on methods for regularising employment in the mines, stopping strikes, and the distribution of coal to the consumer’s door.