STRIKES AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1922, Page 5

STRIKES AMERICA.

COAL SITUATION. POSITION IMPROVING. STATE CONTROL PLAN. By Telegraph.-—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 25, 8.40 pan. Washington, Aug. 24. Mr. H. C. Hoover (Minister of Commerce) announced that 75 per cent, of the formal weekly bituminous coal demands will be mined this week, and the production next week will total seven millions. The coal situation is improving, but there is a shortage of coal-waggons ot the railways. Senator Walsh introduced a resolution authorising the President to take over the mines, and asking for a million-dollar appropriation for this purpose. Senator Walsh charged the President and Congress with remaining inactive and waiting, until it was too late to prevent great suffering through the coal shortage. Senator Cummins defended the President, but admitted there would be intense suffering in New York and New England States this winter.

GENERAL STRIKE SUGGESTED. SOME COAL-MINES AT WORK. New York, Aug. 24. With the railway heads preparing to fight the strike to a finish, the Sioux City Trades and Labor Assembly passed a resolution calling on the American Federation of Labor to order a general strike of all railway employees. Bituminous mines are re-opening through Central Pennsylvania, the miners’ operators having subscribed to the Cleveland agreement. Senator Cummins ■ introduced a Bill in the Senate creating a Federal fuel-distribut-ing agency, to supervise the movements of all coal throughout the country.