STRIKES IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1922, Page 5

STRIKES IN AMERICA.

STRIKE LEADERS ARRESTED. ACTION UNDER INJUNCTION. By Telegraph.—-Press Awn.—Copyright. Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 9. At Chicago, Jewell, Johnson and Ryan, the leaders directing the railwaymen’s strike, were served with writs under the Daughterly injunction, as they arrived to attend a secret conference. Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Sept. 9. Mr. Daugherty has announced that the Government is not a party to any negotiations between the railways. The suggestion that such negotiations would be interfered with by the Government’s injunction is wholly unjustified, SETTLEMENT EFFORTS. CONFERENCE BREAKS DOWN. Received Sept. 10, 5.5 p.m. New York, Sept. 9. It is learned from Chicago that a conference of 50 railroad company executives considering a strike settlement came to a sudden end through a disagreement over separate settlements proposed by the various lines. INVESTIGATING CUX.L TROUBLE. New York, Sept. 8. According to an Atlantic City telegram the executive council of the American Federation of Labor has abandoned the idea of a general strike as a protest against the Daugherty preferring to use legal means. Washington, Sept. 8. The Senate passed Senator Borah’s Bill for the appointment of a commwsion to investigate the coal industry, after rejecting an amendment striking out the provision that the commissioner make a recommendation relative to na tionalisation of lines.