INDUSTRIAL WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1034, 15 August 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL WAR

'CALLENEWS

United Press Association — By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.

RAILWAYMEN SEETHING WITH UNREST.

RIOTS'AT LIVERPOOL.

(Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.)

LONDON, August 14. The railwayman are seething with unrest.

The storm centre is at present in Manchester, where &■ general railway strike is 'threatened, to-night, unless tho demands are granted.

\ The goods shed employees and carters of the Great Western Company, at Bristol, have resolved to strike' for higher wages and a revision of hours.

At Leeds, the men, next Sunday, will'consider a general strike. The Great Central Company's engineers, demand am all round increase of 4s .weekly, otherwise they will strike.

Two thousand London railwayman have decided to strike ou Saturday, unless a settlement is effected. Mr Ben Tillet stated that over 90 per cejit. of the workers would return to-day. He .boasted that he got at the British public through their stomachs.

The Transport Federation advise members only, to work with men holding the Federation ticket.

The employers state that they will not refuse to employ non-Federation-ists.

Fifty thousand attended the Trades Union rally organised by the National Transport Workers' ' Federation at St. George's Plateau, Liverpool. , The poliee sought to remove some youths from a dangerous position on a window sill.

This spark started a riot, lasting all the afternoon and well into the night. Some ugly rushes were made .on the police, who, being a .small [force, refuged behind the iron gates at the railway station. The .mob resisted baton charges with sticks, .stones, 'bottles, bolts, and hand to hand fighting. They stormed 'the station and burst in the gates, arid demolished a hoarding with weapons. / The railway staff kept the rioters at bay with a fire hose until the police' were reinforced. The mo!b N atackod the reinforcements with renewed energy. The JJiot Act. was read.

TROOPS AT LIVERPOOL

FURIOUS RIOTING

DISORDERS AT GLASGOW. (Received Last Night, 10.40 o'clock.) LONDON, August 14. At Liver 000 l a detachment of Scots Greys and "Warwickshires appeared. The police charged and scores of men fell under their truchions. Bricks and bottles flew in a shower. The injured police were carried in ambulances to a rear street. The scene resembled a shambles. St. George's Square was cleared, and the rioters reassembled in the Islington district and erected barricades and lit fires in the streets to impede the mounted polico. , . , Rioters on housetops rained bricks and tiles at the police. They also attacked the firemen, who were quenching a supposed incendiary fire. Hotels in the strike area were closed. The hooligans retaliated by smashing the windows of shops and hotels.* A van containing ginger-beer was seized, and the bottles used for amunitiori. , One hundred and'fifty civilians and forty police were treated in the hos-= pitals, after first-aid had been rendered at the station, which was converted into a field hospital. Broken limbs and ugly head wounds were received. .

A policeman's jaw was smashed by a bottle, and another will probably lose a lee Superintendent Bolfcen was critically injured.

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Following a mass meeting of tramway strikers the police and tramway officials- attacked the strikers. ••- s Many were injured..

The tracks were obstructed by stones and cars were derailed. Windows were smashed, and one hundred and fifty cars damaged.