AN INDUSTRIAL WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1032, 12 August 1911, Page 5

AN INDUSTRIAL WAR.

GREAT STRUGGLE IN ENGLAND.

TROOPS MARCHING FROM ALDERSHOT.

(By Telegraph—United Press Association.)

(Received August 11, 9.15 a.m.)

LONDON, August 10. Though tho position in regard to the strike of London dooSisrs, carman, and lighterman is no worse, all the Aldershot Command will move on London forthwith. . Tho cavalry and dragoons will march by road, and tho infantry proceed by rail. ... _, -„ The troops have been providsd with ball oai-tridgs, and will use all available motors and steam tractors to convey food and fodder. Later accounts state that the Woolwich and Aldershot Commands have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness. Heavy drafts are already movins from Aldershot to London.

MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS

BUSINESS IN LONDON PARALYSED.

KEIR HARDIE INCITES THE MOB. (Received Last Night, 10.55 o'clock) LONDON, August 11. The troops at Aidershot are sleeping in their clothes?" The Hussars entrained at ten o'clock, the Queen's Bays and Third Dragoons following. The Royal Irish Rifles and Worcostorshir© Regiments at Dover are confined to barracks in readiness to proceed to London. Officers, on leave have been recalled. Similar arrangements have been made for the troops at Colchester, where trains are held in readiness. It is understood that it is intended that foodstuff's, shall be escorted by the troops with fixed bayonets from the docks. The Army Service Corps has sent 1 forty motor lorries to the docks to raw food and forage to Alder-shot. The troops at Woolwich Garrison were without breakfast yesterday until, with fixed bayonets, they assisted' the contractors. 'Riotous proceedings have been witnessed, and business is dislocated in all parts of London. ! It is rumoured that 500,000 tons I of goods are detained at the docks, exclusive of the food and other commodities wihieh were coming by the railways. Many lorries and moor vans were

overturned in the Paddington district, where the Great Western Railway picketers are very energetic. Fifty per cent, of the London and General Motor Company's omnibuses have been withdrawn. Twelve, hundred men are thus thrown idle. Australian mutton, usually retailed at 3d per lb, is now being sold at 6d. Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Tower Hill, advised the men to. make the most of having brought London ; near to starvation. "The •masters starve you and sweat you," he said, "pay them back in their own coin!" Eleven thousand railway-men are •striking at Liverpool, wlrile four thousand will suffer enforced idleness. Two thousand carters and six thousand dockers are boycotting the goods depots in sympathy with the strikers. Frequent 'conflicts have 'occurred with the police, who have been pelted with bricks, glass, and apples. Upwards of a hundred policemen, with batons drawn, charged the crowd. .Many outrages, have occurred. A hundred strikers followed a dray laden with fowls, smashed the •rates, and liberated the birds. The ljord Mayor of Liverpool has issued a proclamation warning the strikers that the military is availalso to assist the police if it was necessary to invoke the Riot Act. ' Four hundred of the Warwickshire Regiment have arrived, also police from Leeds and riiriningham, and two hundred Irish Co-nstabularv.