The Industrial Revolution.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 August 1911, Page 3

The Industrial Revolution.

ARMY CORPS MOVE.

MEN DETERMINED. RAILWAY LINES GUARDED. [BY BTjECTRIC TKLEGRAPH--COPYRIGHT.] |_PER rRKBfI ASSOCIATION.j LONDON, August 17. Every available soldier at Aldersliot is und-or orders for service on the railways. Men h-ave 'been stationed along t-li.> lines. Cavalry arc utilised at the large stations to patrol lines. Twenty-five thousand are ready to move in a few hours. Similar* orders have been issuM at other military .stations in Rutland and Scotland. Several • detach monis have arrived in London. Only one-fourth of the railway men are meinbors nf Trad© Unions. The raihvaymon have issued a manifesto demanding tho same opportunities of combination a.s other workers, also to have the wages and hours settled by their own Union. They are determined U» accept nothing lees, and to settle the job now, once and for all. The Daily Mail stat™ that th--Conference asked the companies t.> meet tho Union officials hal" way and they refused. STARVING THE BABES. Owing to tho shortage- of coal the Liverpool Corporation hunwinised milk depots arc dosing, depriving seven hundred of the poorest children of all sustenance. TO-DAY'S GABLES. ISLE OF MAN ISOLATED. ATLANTIC SERVICE IMPEDED. (Received This Day. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. The Midland Rnilway have offered loyalists a bonus of 50 per ceni. on tlieir wages during the currency of the strike. There are twenty-one thousand military rc.sei-vists employed on thr various railways, whom the Government may summon. A number of small fires — supposed to bo incendiary ones—have occurred among shipping in Liverpool. It is doubtful whether the Atlantic liners will be able to leave owing to their inability to coal.

The Cunard and White Star crews iltave. been paid off.

Lord Raglan has applied for a cruiser to transport provisions to the Isle of Man, as the ordinary communication lias ceased owing to the strike.

RADICAL PRESS COMMENTS. MEN REFUSE GOVERNMENT OFFER. (Received This Dny, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. The Croniclc and Morning Leader uphold the principle of Conciliation Boards. Tiie former declares that sudden repudiation of the agreement of 1907, which would have ended in 1914. will aleniate public sympathy. Railway managers nml railway men's representatives conferred separately with the Hoard of Trade. Mr Asf|uith. (the Premier) attended. The railway-men's do.'elates declined tht Government's offer of an immediate Royal Commission to inquire, into the grievance respecting the workin* of the Conciliation Beard. The managers offered to accept it. THE PREMIER'S WARNING. Mr Asqufth warned the railwaymen of the consequences of their refusal.

At to-day's La!>onr conference the executives of tlio railwaymen\s Unions introduced « new feature. demanding tho re-instatement of all men locked out before discussing the terms of settlement of the railwaymen's claims. There- has been fresh trouble with London dockers. Several cruisers have arrived in the Mersey. EXTR AORDINARY DISORDER. TROOPS T,N THE EAST END. (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. August 17.' Troop? from Aldersliot 'Have reached. London. Arrangements have been made for five thousand to camp in Victoria Park. The dockers complain of a breach of the overtimo agreement. The people in Manchester are subsisting on tlie reserves of food. Hundreds of the public are walking along the railway lines. Efforts to induce the tramwaymen to strike failed. BLUEJACKETS COW THE MOBS. The appearance of cruisers at Liverpool to protect shipping with bluejackets prepared to land, coupled with great military activity, has impressed tho mobs. TIIE BLATANT AGTTATOR. " Tom " Mann declares he will not issue further "permits," and adds that the military can take the responsibility of getting carts through tho streets. Many shopkeepers have removed their tinned goods from tlieir windows. Shipowners offer to withdraw tlio lockout on terms. RAILWAY SKRVrCES DISORGANISED. Fir? +1 -:r-'T..r! rai'wnymen at Leeds have struck, and many at Blackburn. ]$r:ulford ai:d Leicester, in t.Ve r.'--i;;v:e -d a truce, but others await p from hear , quarters. Trains from Manchester and Huddersfield and .all the Midland Comnany's train:; Huill .and Sheffield are -;:i*r<?»i:l?.4. SABOTAGE. _ The rint-jrr, T rstrnyed a Midland signal box at Sheffield b;caus;e it was used" after the signalmen struck. THE GORDONS ARRIVE. Gorc'on Highlanders have arrived to protect the railways; (CVo-Vo Net-: .Victoria Park is a sp'ftidid " liinnr" f ol . f.i.ip, densely inhabited East Km! of London. The Park was openel in 1847 and covers 300 acres. It is provided with all kin'"Vs of facilities for recruiting, and is b<mi'tifully laid out).

AUSTRALIAN TROUBLES. (Received ThiVDay, 11.0 a.m.) BTC'STTUNK This Dov. The'■•vaterswle workers at Mackay nre firm in their dotermi nation not to work no::-v.nionisfs. GRAVIS NEWS. I ■ MACHINE GUNS ARRIVE IN . LONDON. I (Received This Day, 12.0 a.m.) .„• . - ' - LONDON,-An2iist 17./-• I r-iiThe' Tailwaymen'sVeecretary"--," aiii-j

Inounces that the strike will now begin. Six train loads of troops biought twelve machine guns to London. Mr Churchill stated that ci.ntrary to the agreement some London lightermen liavo struck, objecting _ to the employment of non-Unionists. FURTHER RIOTING IN LIVERPOOL. Tlioi-3 has been further rioting in Liverpool. . The gravest feature today has been the calling out of tifoo ■power-house men, in order to plumgc tho city into darkness and stop the