MORE RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 46, 16 August 1911, Page 5

MORE RIOTS IN LIVERPOOL

THE POLICE POWERLESS. ' J ' : MANY INJURED. THE TROUBLE SPREADING. "By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, London, August 14. Thirty thousand dockers in Liverpool have been locked out. Ninety arrests have been made in Liverpool. There was a fierce affray at midnight at the north end of the city. The mob extinguished the gas lamps and tore down a TWll for missiles. The police were unable to cope with the crowd, and the military were utilised. Four revolver shots were fired. The street was cleared, and many were injured. Four hotels had their windows smashed, and provision shops were looted. The strike leaders, from the first outbreak, bravely risked injury from both sides in their efforts to calm the crowd. They blame the police for precipitating the trouble. The doctors worked double hours bandaging and stitching the injured. St. George's Hall was converted into a temporary hospital, and scores were laid on the table for treatment. A fireman was scalped by a brick, and an officer of the Warwickshire Regiment injured. Fifteen thousand men are idle on the North-Eastern and Lancashire and Yorkshire railways. Thousands of bales of cotton are lying on the quays and in the railway goods yards.

Several Lancashire mills have closed, and the trade in frozen meat is impeded. There is an epidemic of small industrial strikes in London. THE POSITION IN LONDON. NO GENERAL RESUMPTION. FURTHER STRIKES PROBABLE. London, August 14. There has been no general resumption of work in London, owing to the Port Authority dismissing four hundred permanent men for striking. The Authority has now promised to consider their reinstatement as a condition of general resumption, but declines a request on behalf of the porters at Surrey Commercial Docks to re-open the question of payment for meal-times. The situation in connection with the railway carmen is critical. Goods drivers and porters at Paddington are idle. The London County Council tramwaymen will strike on Wednesday unless wages are advanced, with the concession of an eight hours' day. The situation at Smithfield is normal. Many women teapickers have struck but the butter business has not be«n resumed. The wharf laborers are still in London. Factory women at Bermondsey held meetings to demand improved pay. Tom Mann is making daily speeches at Liverpool. Swansea raihvaymen are agitating for an eight hours' day, with 30s a week minimum. They have summoned a meeting to consider the date of a strike. The coal lightermen at Grimsby have struck for twopence an hour increase. AH trawlers have been rendered idle. At the General Post Office the night telephonists are agitating for better conditions. There have been further riots at Liverpool and Birkenhead. STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT. MILITARY SUPPORT FOR THE POLICE,

London, August 15. Mr. Churchill, in the House of Commons, said that, if necessary, all the forces at the Government's disposal would be used to secure the free workof London's food supply. He said there was no improvement in the serious position at Liverpool, and although hooligans began the disorder, undoubtedly many strikers had joined. Attacks were still being made on warehouses, factories and private houses, and the police assaulted in the performance of their ordinary duties. Consequently the Government was of opinion that the police were entitled to effective military aid. Further troops had been ordered to Liverpool, making the total a brigade of infantry and two regiments of cavalry. Mr. Churchill added, in reply to Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, that nothing would be done to weaken the action of the police, nnd there would be no enquiry into allegations until complete order had been restored. All the leading railways have decided to resist the strikers' demands and inlist on the resumption of work and an appeal to the Conciliation Board. Mr. Lloyd-George announced that Mr. Asquith and Mr. Buxton were conferring on the whole question of the improvement of means available for preventing or shortening industrial warfare. PRESS VTEWS. London, August 14. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the workers generally interpreted Mr. LloydGeorge's denunciation of the governing classes in their own ignorant way. Prom Limehouse (London) to Lime street (Liverpool) was an easy transition through several phases of covert encouragement and masterly inactivity in the protection of life and property. The Westminster Gazette says that the most serious feature is the tendency of men of all trades to break away from their official leaders. If the railway difficulty was merely a question of interpreting arbitrators' awards the remedy Was easr.

BRITAIN'S VULNERABLE POINT. Berlin, August 14. The Zeit, commenting on the effect of the strike on food supplies, pointedly remarks that Britain has a vulnerable point.