RIOTERS AND POLICE

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

RIOTERS AND POLICE

SEVERAL SKIRMISHES. A STREET BARRICADED. NO FINANCIAL BENEFITS TO STRIKERS. Received 15, 10 p.m. London, August 15. At Liverpool there were two skirmishes between the rioters and the police, but the military quelled them. A mob barricaded Christian street and placed wire entanglements in the side streets.

The offices of the Shipping Federation were burned, it is believed, by an incendiary. The strikers cut the fire hoses. The police dispersed thr-i after a sharp conflict.

A hundred men and women w sentenced at the Police Court up to three months' imprisonment in connection with Sunday's riot.

Seven thousand dockers participated in the riots at Birkenhead. One policeman was seriously injured. The strikes were mostly .unsanctioned by the union executives, and therefore the strikers will not receive financial benefits.

The Amalgamated Railway Society are meeting to consider the situation.

The secretary states that non-union-ists started the strike. The strikers induced unionists to join them. Had the railway companies recognised the union the trouble would have been averted. THE POSITION OF DOCK WORKERS. WORK RESUMING GRADUALLY. Received 15, 11.45 p.m. London, August 15. Mr. Gosling, secretary of the Transport Workers' Union, states ■ that the men arc resuming gradually. Dock work, he says, will be normal in a few days. Fifteen thousand women engaged in factories in South London have struck, and obtained an advance of a shilling to four shillings weekly.

Nearly three thousand troops, under General MacKinnon, are located at Liverpool.