THE ENGLISH STRIKERS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1911, Page 3

THE ENGLISH STRIKERS

CAVALRY AND INFANTRY CALLED LP.

BVLL CARTRIDGES FOR, THIS DOCKERS.

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(Received This Day, 0.30 a.in.) LONDON, August 10.

Though 1/oudon dockers, carmen and lightermen's striko is 110 worse, all tho Aldershot command is moving to London forthwith. Cavalry and Dragoons are proceeding by road, and infantry Ly rail. They have boon provided with ball cartridges, and all available motors and steam tractors, and food and fodder. AX ALARMTXO SITUATION. LONDON' MAY BE ISOLATED. WILD SCKXFS~\T LIVERPOOL. THE MOB AND"""FREE BEER. LONDON, August 10. The strike situation ,at Liverpool is threatening. Pickets prevent goods from leaving the docks and railway depots. The goods service of the district is held_ up and the passenger service is dislocated. Numerous disorders and outrages are occurring. These includo till© overturning of brewers' drays and the knocking in of the bungs and the distribution of beer to tho mob.

The Lord Mayor and the Chief Constable of Liverpool conferred with prominent leaders of tlie > strikers with a view to possible action for preserving peace and obviating the necessity for utilising outside forces. Mr T! Thomas. M.P.. secretary of ■the Society of the Amalgamated Railway Servants .declared that discontent was steadily crowing in all grades. The grievances were numerous. Dissatisfaction was ■particularly keen over the work of Conciliation Boards, which had throughout favoured the employers. Mr Thomas said that it was also exceedingly difficult to get- the decisions put info operation, combinations and the pooling arrangements of fho great line; afTcting the workers adverselv.

The situation arisen spontaneously and the Fnion had not or<r«uiie«cT the strike. Non-unionists were receiving strike pav. Hnlf flip strikers fire Non-unionists. Mr Thomas added that London mipjlit he comnletelv isolated.

Tlie foorl srmplies are en+ off. The London Omnibus Company has withdrawn one-third of its omnibuses, owing +o a shortage of p°+vnl. only three da-vs' supplv remaining.

T''p steamer has landed hev pnesongers at Plv""vith.