TRANSPORT STRIKE.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 386, 12 August 1911, Page 5

TRANSPORT STRIKE.

LONDON PARALYSED

TROOPS CALLED OUT. ,' By Tcle-raph. I'm.<- Cnpyre.-lit ; London, August Id. ! All the troops at Aidershot. are moving on London. They aio provided ! With ball cartridges, and ail available steam motors, Etc run trailer::, food and (odder art- also being sen!. London streets are a- epuiot a:-- en Sundays. A KiG CONFER ENTR. Mr Askwitb's conference- wilh the lightermen and coalmen has been adjourned. It, is understood I hat the carters will join the. conference tomorrow. It is estimated that there are 20, nod docker? out, ,'IO,OOO car men, 70s 11' lightermen and engineers, 0000 coal porters, SOOO stevedore:--, SOdO labourers, and TllOO porters at She Billingsgate. Fish Market, ninking with the .addition of unregistered workers over 100,(1(10 on strike. STEAMERS HELL UP. There are ioO vessels laden with meat, wheat, hotter, and fruit lying in the Thames undischargahle. One Smithfield salesman states that he has 122,000 carcases of New Zealand mutton and lamb at. the docks awaiting delivery. Another states that, he has. cabled to New Zealand (o withhold shipments. The car men employed on the Great Northern and Midland railways are supporting: the strike. The South Eastern railway is unable to deliver 2-1.000 cases of Tssmrrnian apples, which are rapidly deteriorating. All thoroughfares leading to the docks are picketed, ami the car men are picketing Goswell road. Received August. 11. 10.no p.m. London, Yesterday. The troops at. Aidershot. are sleeping in their clothes. The Hussars entrained at ten o'clock, the (Queen's Bays and Third Dragoons fellow in;:. The Royal Irish Rides and the Worcestershire regiments at Dover arc co:.fineo to the barracks in readiness to proceed to London. Oihoers on leave have been recalled, ami a similar arrangement, lias boon made wilh the

troops at Colchester, where trains arc hold in readiness. It, is understood it is intended Unit, foodstuffs will he escorted by troops with fixed bnyenots from (he doc's.-. The Army Service Corps has sent forty motor lorries to the dock's to draw food and forage to Akiorsbof. Tho troops at Woolwich Garrison were without breakfast yesterday, until the troops '"-zed bayonets and assisted the contractor's motors. Business is paralysed and dislocated in all parts of London. If is estimated chat, five hundred thousand tons of goods arc detained at the docks., exclusive of food and other commodities coming by railway. Many lorries and motor vans ha\e been overturned in the Addingfon dis trict, where the Croat Western railway pickets are very energetic Fifty tier centum of the London General Motor Company's omnibuses are withdrawn, and twelve hundred men thus thrown idle. Australian mutton, usually retailed at; ekl per lb is now (id. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking on Lowe's Hill, advised the men to make the most of having brought London near starvation. "If the masters starve you and sweat, you, pay them back in their own coin." Eleven thousand railway men are striking At Liverpool four thousand are m enforced idleness, and two thousand carters and six thousand dockers are boycotting goods in the depots in sympathy. There were frequent conflicts with the police, who were pelted with bricks, glass and apples. Upwards of one hundred baton charges were made. There were many outrages. A hundred strikers followed a dray J a don with fowls and smashed the crates and liberated the birds. The Lord Mayor of Liverpool has issued a proclamation warning strikers that tho military are available to assist the police if neeessry, and has read the Riot Act.. Four hundred men of the Warwickshire regiment have arrived, also police from Leeds and Birmingham. and two hundred Irish Constabuiaty. Keceived August C.\ S.d a.m. London, Yesterusy. Owing to the strike, the newspapers arc threatened with a shortage of paper. Five thousand tons are used weekly, and ten thousand tons, are lying on the wharves at Wanping and Black Friars not deliverable. If is estimated that many papers have only three or four days' supply. Bract ically no business is doing. For Covent Garden supplies arcreaching the market h\ stud) strategy

a? furniture vans. Thirty thousand capes ;ire lying untouched. The Si nth

Eastern and Chatham railway Company's car men have no grievance, and Bre not striking, but other strikers arc preventing the delivery and arrivals. Fifty thousand cases of French, Spanish and Galifornian fruit will be | spoilt unless the strike is ended on J Monday. J Mr Winston Churchill, questioned I in the Commons, Haid that unlens a ! settlement was reached to-day, it I would be necessary for the Govern- | !.! et te make a statement regarding ; tie steps being taken to maintain i order and the food supply. The ComI misi ioner of Police had been in- ! r-i meted to lake all measures for the | preservation of order promptly, and ; to a; rest, ml imid.ttorp. Vu ;■: re George Lansbury and Will : Greeki bitterly complained of tho :: c t ioi :• of th.c- police. An a'l -night conference to-day Kseiwd:! si ■!! lemeni. of Hie cartcri/ e.i\>e\ ■;■.',)(•<: ., and agreed t.o a bix days week of seventy- IWO hours, with t)0 (i.'.ys work of more than fourteen hours. I (rivers of one-horse vans aro to n ceive 27s a week, two-horsed vans."ls. and .four-horned vans 38s. Stablemi n 275. Right,urn r.iul steverbjes' grievances are still undi r consideration. None of the sections are resuming work until all aro satisfied.