STRIKE IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1922, Page 5

STRIKE IN AMERICA.

PLAN TO MEET DEADLOCK. STATE CONTROL DROPPED. OTHER PROPOSALS MADE, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 29, 8.20 p.m. New York, Aug. 29. The New "York Times’ Washington correspondent states that, following a weekend conference between President Harding, Cabinet officers and the Senate, it is understood the Administration has abandoned the plan to obtain legislation authorising the Government to take over the mines and railroads, and instead contemplates other action without legislative authority. Mail trains and passenger services, if the necessity arises, will he curtailed and the whole rail transportation facilities will be concentrated O n moving coal. The interstate commerce commission will prevent profiteering by refusing to allocate trains to haul coal from mines charging exorbitant prices.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TRAIN-WRECKER CONFESSES. BOMB PLOT REVEALED. New York. August 28. A Chicago message states that four members of the Shop Craft Union have been arrested and charged with having wrecked a Michigan Central train on August 29. The police state that one of the men confessed that they pulled up spikes with the deliberate purpose of killing the driver and fireman. He also revealed plans to bomb the shops and sleeping quarters of nonunion men and wreck a New York Central train. Accused absolved the union, stating that violence was fostered by a small band of radicals who had been actively spreading Bolshevist theories. Washington, Aug. 28. The Senate committee favorably reported on Senator Cummins’ Bill creating a Federal fuel-distributing agency to supervise the movement of all coal throughout the country. New York, Aug. 28. It is stated that Mr. Ford’s decision to close his various plants on September 16 will render idle half a mill’on. on whom three million others are dependent. Mr. Ford declare* that the fight constitutes a conspiracy to unload the railroad systems upon the Government at the railroads’ own prices, also to mulct the people by excessive coal orices. Mr. Gompers makes a similar charge.