RAILWAY MEN OUT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 875, 22 July 1910, Page 5

RAILWAY MEN OUT.

BRITISH STRIKE SPREADS. VAST DISLOCATION OF TRAFFICABORTIVE CONFERENCECABINET MINISTER HURRIES TO SCENE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, Juiy 20. As a consequence of three thousand railway men at Newcastle going out on strike owing to the dismissal of a shunter, drivers and firemen at Middlesborough, Gateshead, South Shields, C&rlisle, and Tweedmouth have struck. There is an extraordinary dislocation of traffic Excursion trains have been cancelled, and all are complaining of the tyranny of the yard-masters. Business men have been compelled to sleep at town hotels. I Shipping at Middlesborough and South 1 Shields is paralysed. | A four hours* .interview between tho North-Eastern railway officials and the ! men's representatives proved abortive. Some , 25,000 men are affected, and ! thousands of colliers have been thrown idle. I The members of • the Amalgamated Society of Railway" Servants at Darlington' I and Bishop Auckland have struck. "SPEEDING-UP" OBJECTED TO. CARLISLE TO COME OUT. (Rec. July 21, 11.35 p.m.) London, July 21. The North-eastern railway men are agitating for the abolition of the award given by Sir V. T. Woodhouse in last year's dispute, and also for .the abolition of the Conciliation Board. Air. William Allen, leader of the Teessido men, declares that the latter, complain of the tyrannical attitude-of -the officials in every department, who are, they say, reducing expenses to the detriment of the workers. It is stated from other sources that the men object to "speeding-up," and the appointment of additional miilol officials to keep them up to the mark. , The company yesterday offered to receive a deputation to consider ,tlie men's grievances, provided that work was resumed, but the men declined unless tho head shunter who was dismissed was reinstated. Mr. Sydney Buxton, President of the Board of Trade, has gone to Newcastle to exert his influence. All grades at Carlisle have decided to strike, thus breaking tho railway connection between east and west. YORK DECIDES TO STRIKE. (Rec. | July 21, 10.5 p.m.) London, July 21. The Amalgamated . Railway Servants' Society at York has decided to call ' a strike unless the dispute is settled this afternoon. The North Eastern Railway has a mileage of 1697 miles, and its principal station is at Newcastle-on-Tyne. With it is amalgamated the oldest public railway iu the world, the Stockton and Darlington. The company serves Yorkshire, Cumberland, Northumberland, and parts of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Roxburgh. In conjunction with the Great Northern and North British, it forms the "East Coast route" to Scotland. Tho fastest booked run in the British Isles is on this line. THE AMERICAN TROUBLE. THOUSANDS OP JULES OF LINE AFFECTED. ' Ottawa, July 20. Renter's agency states that half the passenger trains and all the freight trains have suspended work on the Grand Trunk railway (16-15 miles). There are 10,000 persons idle at Montreal. Huge quantities of merchandise are held up. Both sides are resolute. The company claims that non-unionists aro gradually taking the trainmen's places. The Wabash system (2517 miles), which is principally in the Middle West, with' one section in Canada, has been disorganised by the strikes. CATTLE STARVE IN CARTLOADS. GREAT HARDSHIP CAUSED. (Rec. July 21, 11.35 p.m.) Ottawa, July 21. The strike on the Grand Trunk railroad is causing great hardship. Cattle are starving in cartloads, and perishable goods are rotting. . A shortago of meat and milk is feared at Montreal and elsewhere.