RAILWAY WAR SPREADING
SEVERAL CITIES AFFECTED. BLOCKADING RAILWAY DEPOTS. INFANTRY AND CAVALRY IN READINESS. Received 15, 10 p.m. London, August 15. The railway labor war is spreading to Birmingham, Bristol and Sheffield, Numerous sectional strikes have commenced.
Three thousand struck at Manchester, while the trouble is extending to the Southern Railway systems. A meeting of workers of the latter and the Bermondsey Transport Federation announced that all London railway depots would be blockaded to-day, nnd the companies notified that the railway carters and allied workers should be included in last week's settlement.
Five thousand infantry and cavalry are in readiness to proceed to Liverpool., A hundred Scots Greys and two detachments of Hussars have been despatched.
The Strike Committee at Liverpool, in manifestos to a hundred thousand, calling for a general strike, point out that as the shipowners forced a lockout, the railway companies had not shown a willingness to negotiate, find the authorities are despatching military, the Transport Federation are determined to stand firm and to cease work at midnight.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 46, 16 August 1911, Page 5
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171RAILWAY WAR SPREADING Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 46, 16 August 1911, Page 5
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