STRIKE WARFARE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 5

STRIKE WARFARE.

RIOTS IN VANCOUVER.'

Br Tolsarrapli—Pmbb AsieolatJon—CopyrtsM ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Spccial Cables.) Vancouver, August 14. After serious l'iots hail occurred, the militia got tho strike situation, undor control at Ladj-smith, Nahaimo, and other Vauoouver Island towns. The strikers besieged strike-breakers in a tunnel during a whole night, destroyed tho mine buildings, flooded' tho mine workings, and dynamited a railway bridge. Tliey also committed other cut-, rages. Tiireo thousand strikers aro involved. TOWN TERRORISED. (Bee. August 15, 9.30 p.m.) Vancouver, August 15. During the earlier stages of tho Nanimo riot the minors compelled tho polico to talco refugo in steamers. They terrorised tho town, and blew up a hut ocoupied by strike-breakers. LABOUR WAR IN SPAIN. TROOPS GUARDING THE RAIL, WAYS. Bt Talegraph—Press Association—OopTTißht ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special- Cables.) Madrid, August 14. Tho Barcelona striko has not yet been settled. Two hundred and thirty-eight cotton factories aro shut, and twenty-two .thousand operatives liave struck. Troops aro guarding tho railways, banks, and convents. A railway strike is threatened, LEITH DOCKERS TO RESUME. London, August 14. Tho Leith dockers passed a resolution in favour of resuming work on tho old terms. (Rec. August IS, 0.25 a.m.) ' Tho Lothian minors have lost .£40,000 in, wages during tho stoppage of tho 'collicries owing to the Leith dockers' striko, RAILWAYMEN DISSATISFIED. ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) London, August 14. Tho North-Western railway men at Liverpool aro agitating for a living wage. They assert that twenty-ono shillings to twenty-thrco shillings a week does/not provide a bare subsistence, and it was resolved not to undertake special work until they wero granted an advanco.