The Industrial Upheaval.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 August 1911, Page 3

The Industrial Upheaval.

CONDITIONS RAPIDLY GROWING WORSE.

[BY ELECTRIC TBLEURAPH--COPYRIdBT.] [P*R PRESS ABSO fe ,ATIOJJ.3 (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. August 10.

Soino London streets are as quiet as on Sundays. Commercial and vehicular tratlic -has ceased. Extra police have been drafted to the strike areas. Crowds at Paddington (in north-west London where is situated tho London terminus of the Great Western Railway) prevented vans from leaving. There have been many isolated ! cases of personal injuries and arrests. Fish porters at Billingsgate refused to work unless 2s per hour were paid. The masters conceded demand. Mr Askwith (of the Board of Trade) lias arranged a settlement with the coal porters, the agreement giving increased wages and other concessions. Conditions at Liverpool are rapidlv becoming worse. Detachments of the Warwickshire regiment and 200 Irish Constabulary ibave arrived. There were! riiotonis scenes at the Central Station. MORE TROOPS MOVING. (Received This Dav, 11.30 n.m.) LONDON, August 10. Later accounts state that the Woolwich and Aldershot commands have been ordered to be in readiness. Heavy drafts are already moving from Aldershot to London.