THE GREAT STRIKE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 August 1911, Page 3

THE GREAT STRIKE.

MORE FIGHTING IN LIVERPOOL.

BAYONET CHARGES BY THE INFANTRY.

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[PER PRESS ASSOCmiON.j (Received This Day, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, August 15. After midnight the mob looted the shops in 'Christian street district (Liverpool). The infantry fired several volleys overhead and then- made a bayonet charge up the dark courts ,where- they were assailed with stones and bottles. There were many casualties, two soldiers being grievously, wounded. Fifty-six arrests were made. A CONFERENCE ARRANGED. TRAIN SERVICES CURTAILED. MANCHESTER'S SERIOUS POSITION. FACED WITH STARVATION. (Received This Day, 0.30 a.m.) LONDON. August 15. The conference between Mr Asouith (the Premier) and Mr Buxton (President of the Board of Trade), at Downing Street to-day included Mr Llovd-George, Sir R-ufus Isaacs (Attorn'ov-Gouoral) and Mr Askwith (of the Board of Trade), and a large number of employers of the chief trades with leading representatives of labour, including the Rt. Hon. Thomas Burt, M.P.. and Mr W. P. Roworman. M.P. Tt was afterwards announced that a conference for Thursday !>n fl been arranged by the Board of Trade with_ representatives of men employed in various branches of railway work. "Work has been resumed at Pnddington. The Port of London_ Authority offers to reinstate strikers on probation. Train services at Crewe (the London and N.W. Hallway), Leicester and other centres have been curtailed. Many transport workers at Birmingham have struck. Others who have struck include porters in the goods departments at Chester, Sheffield, Roth orb am (Yorkshire), Warrington and Bristol, shunters and dockers at Avonmouth. carmen at Bath and Bristol, a majority of engine-drivers at Stockport (Cheshire), and twelve hundred North British plate-layers and surfacemen.

GLASGOW STRIKE 001 LAPSES. In West Scotland, tho tramway strike at Glasgow col lapsed A many of the strikers not being reinstated. Five hundred railwaymen at the docks at Manchester with Great Northern goodsmon and Great Northern and Midland vanmen have struck. A local nuivhant declares that Manchester is -within three days of starvation. The Millers' Association, at Liverpool, declare that .a serious bread fa mi no is threatened in Liverpool and Birkenhead.

THE HOME SECRETAPvY'S STATEMENT. Mr Churchill, in the House of Commons, stated that the situation in London had improved and that all sections of dwkers were returning. He believed tho transport workers realise:! tho advantages already secured and the folly of jeopardising (hem. The. soldiers at Liverpool, said the Minister, simply fired individual shots at houses from which missiles were thrown.

AUSTRALIAN DISPUTES

(Received This Dav, 11.0 a.m.) MELBOURNE. Tin's Dav.

The council of the- Victorian Employers' Federation lias a protest against the Federal Attor-ney-General, n.s President of the "Waterside- Workers' Federation, directing the members to refuse to 'handle non-Union sugar, as such action tended to cause a general strike in contempt of the Arbitration Act, which he, as Attorney-General, should endeavour to uphold.