THE INDUSTRIAL WAR.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1035, 16 August 1911, Page 6

THE INDUSTRIAL WAR.

SITUATION STILL SERIOUS

MORE TROOPS CALLED OUT

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(Received August 15, 10.40 a.m.)

LONDON, August 14. Mr Winston Churchill, Home Secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, said that, if necessary, all the forces at the Government's disposal would ho used to secure the free work- j ins °f London's food supply. Tho Minister said there was no improvement in tho serious position at Liverpool, and although hooligans began tho disorder, undoubtedly many strikers had joined them. Attacks wero still being made on warehouses, factories and private houses, and the police had been assaulted in the performance of their ordinary duties. Consequently the Government was of opinion that the polico were entitled to effective military aid. Further troops had been ordered out, making a total of one brigade of infantry, and two regiments of cavalry. Mr Churchill added, in reply to Mr Ramsay Macdonald, that nothing would be done to weaken the action of the police, and there would be no inquiry into allegations against them until complete order .had been restored.

(Received August 15, 8.30 a.m.)

LONDON, August 14. Thirty thousand dockers at Liverpool arc locked out. Ninety arrests have been made in Liverpool as the result of a fierce affray at midnight in the north end of the city.,

The mob extinguished gas lamps, and tore down a wall for missiles. The police were unable to copo with the outbreak, and the military were utilised. Four revolver shots were fired, and the streets were cleared. There were many injured. Four hotels were smashed in, and a provision shop 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 riot. Doctors spent a couple of hours bandaging and stitching the injured, St. George's Hall being converted into a temporary hospital. Scores were laid on tables.

A fireman was scalped by a brick, and an officer of the Warwickshires was injured.

Fifteen thousand men are idle in 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 are closed, and the frozen meat trade is impeded. There is an epidemic of small industrial strikes.

(Received August 15, 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 14

There has been no general resumption in London owing to the Port Authority dismissing four hundred permanent men for striking. The Authority has now promised to consider their re-instatement as a condition of a general resumption, but they decline the request made on behalf of the Surrey Commercial Docks porters to re-open the question of payment for meal-time. The situation in connection with the railway carmen is critical. The goods drivers and porters at Paddington are idle. ,

•The: London County Council tramwaymen will strike 011 Wednesday unless wages are advanced with a concession of eight hours a day.

The situation at Smithfield is normal. The butter business has not been resumed.

( The wharf labourers are still out.

Many women tea-pickers have struck in London. Factory women at Bermondsey held meetings to demand improved pay. Tom Mann is making daily speeches at Liverpool. The Swansea railwaymen are agitating for eight hours a day with 30s a week minimum. 'They have summoned a meeting to consider the date of a strike.

(Received August 15, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, August 14

The London and North Western railwaymen at Coventry protested against the despatch of men from Coventry • to fill the strikers':places' at Liverpool. The chairman of the Coventry Branch declared that the cause of the whole railway trouble was the Conciliation; Board, which the. men Ought; to smash. •i ''

The tramway Service at Glasgow has been partially resumed. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the workers generally interpreted Mr Lloyd-George's denunciation of the governing classes in their own ignorant way. From Limehouse to Limestreet was an easy transition, through several phases of covert encouragement and masterly inactivity in the protection of life and property. The Westminster Gazette says the most serious feature of the strikes 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 the arbitrators' awards the remedy would' bo easy.

(Received August 15, 10.40 a.m.) • / LONDON*August-14- • All the leading railways have do

eided to resist the .strikers' demands and insist on resumption and appeal to the Conciliation Board. Mr Llovd-George announced that Mr Asquith and Mr Buxton were conferring on the whole question of , improving the means available for I preventing or shortening industrial warfare. The coal lightermen at Grimsby have ! struck for twopence an hour increase. All trawlers have been rendered idle. The General Post Office night telephonists are agitating for better conditions. There have been further riots at Liverpool and Birkenhead. (Received August 15, 8 a.m.) BERLIN, August 14. Tho newspaper Zeit, commenting on the effect the strike has on British food supplies, pointedly remarks that Britain has a vulnerable point. (Received August 15, 8.50 a.m.) VIENNA, August 14. The International Trade Union Congress of Budapest has accepted tho Swiss proposal for international support of affiliated Federations in strikes.