THE LABOUR WAR

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1036, 17 August 1911, Page 5

THE LABOUR WAR

CABLENEWS United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

BUSINESS PARTLY RESUMED. SERIOUS RIOTING CONTINUES. (Received Last Night, 9.55 o'clock.) LONDON, August 16. Business has been partly resumed in Tooley Street. Butter is very firm. Australian butter has nominally increased two to ( four shillings. Accurate quotations ; are impossible until the conditions are I normal. The police report that yesterday's riot was purely an attack on the police. In tho district where the disorder was chronica the men are liable to outburst. At times there is abnormal excitement. PRISON VANS HELD UP. Five prison vans, conveying sentenced rioters, and escorted by Hussars and Scots Greys were traversing Vauxhall Road, which is inhabited by seamen and dockers, when their progress was barred by an excited mob. \ Bricks and stones were hurled at the convoy from side streets and house ( tops. Many were struck and six were unseated. CONVOY FIRES SHOTS. The crowd were so menacing that the oonvoy fired six shots. Prendergast, a carter, was shot dead, and Sutcliffe, also a carter, died later. Three others received bulllet wounds and were taken to a hospital. The Warwickshires and the police hurried to Vauxhall Road ' Meanwhile the vans reached the prison. DESPERATE STREET FIGHTING, j On the arrival of the infantry des- i perate street fighting commenced and I lasted for an hour, the rioters facing ] the battons with coolness and courage.' The police were badly mauled. CONGRESS OF RAILWAYMEN. DAY GIVEN FOR SETTLEMENT. ( (Received Last Night, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, August 16. A joint congress of railway servants, locomotive engineers, firemen, } signalmen, pointsmen, and general j workers' unions met at Liverpool and \ considered the position: It was unanimously decided to give the railway companies twenty-four hours to negotiate for a settlement, otherwise a general strike would commence on Thursday morning. COMPANIES' METHODS CONDEMNED. The congress also passed resolutions condemning the Companies' / methods of working the conciliation scheme, 1 the action of the police, and the employment of the military at Liverpool. A. general strike would involve 360,000 workers. The passenger services are decerning dislocated, and goods traffc is at a standstill. SHEFFIELD MOB TURBULENT. The mob at Sheffield is turbulent to actual rioting. A provision car was.upset and some, stone-throwing occurred. POSITION IN MANCHESTER. Twenty-five thousand workers are , idle at Manchester. The police are escorting cotton from the docks to the mills unmolested. ACUTE DISTRESS. The strike distress at Bermondsey is acute. A relief ration is being distributed.