Second Edition. Strikes and Lock-Outs.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 August 1911, Page 3

Second Edition. Strikes and Lock-Outs.

RIOTS IN LONDON AND LIVERPOOL. MEAT CARTS AND BEER WAGGONS LOOTED. :.bi klectrio telkgraph-copybioht.] [PBB.PRBBB iHSOCIATIOi:.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. A general strike of cartel's has bcßii ordered involving a further 10,000 men. The strikers overturned carts containing meat and wool leaving the docks. Cold storage porters have struck. There were exciting scenes at Sinithfield Market (in the E.O. district), the strikers roughly handling men attempting to remove the carcases. A number of trucke were overturned. The Runic's fruit shipment has not yet been discharged. All the foreign fruit trade at Covent Garden is suspended. Business at the Corn Exchange at Smithfield. and .in Tooley street (on the south side of the Thames) is practically at a standstill. The clerical staff at Waterloo goods station (the London and South Western Railway) refusing to perform porters' duties have struck.

Mr "Harry" Gosling, socretarv of the Transport Workers' Federation, ■anticipates a speedy settlement «s the outcome of the conference with Mr Askwith (of the Board of Trade). Chaos reigns at the Liverpool docks, quays, and railway stations. The strikei's demolished fish boxes w'iiich were scattered in all directions and looted a beer-wafr?on and a. milk van. Passenger porters and! vanmen lipvo struck.

A hundred' workmen at Port Sunlight mills (near Liverpool) have struck for higher wages. METAL WORKERS LOCK-OUT. (Received This Day 10.30 a m.) BERLIN, August 9. Twenty-two thousand metal workers are locked out at Leipzig and in Thirringian towns. Anxiety is felt lest the movement should'spread to Berlin.