STRIKES IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1922, Page 5

STRIKES IN AMERICA.

GRAVE DISORDERS OCCUR. TAMPERING WITH TRAINS. A DISASTER AVERTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, August 31. Twenty were injured through a rearend collision between two Hudson tube trains on the Jersey side. The Chicago police have arrested three men on a charge of conspiracy to dynamite the New York Central fast western express. A railway bridge over a street in Wilmington, Delaware, has been blown up. The strikers are blamed. A Washington telegram says that the Inter-State Commerce Commission has declared that an emergency exists in regard to the railways west of the Mississippi, which are unable to properly serye the public by the transpor tation of essential commodities. The commission will take over their regulation. The attorneys representing the striking railway shopmen and the American Federation of Labor,, have announced that they have obtained a million dollar defence fund to investigate the arrest of four men accused of wrecking a train on August 28. An attempt made to derail the Illinois Central express neat Council Bluffs, lowa, failed. A work car preceding the flyer by a few minutes crashed into a pile of rocks laid on the track. One was killed and two fatally injured.