STRIKE IN ENGLAND.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 September 1913, Page 5

STRIKE IN ENGLAND.

CABLE NEWS

(United Prm Association—-B* (R*>trie T<kir*§h-09H(HM>)

IN SYMPATHY WITH DUBLIN. RAILWAY SYSTEMS AFFECTED.

Received This Morning, 12.25 o'clock. LONDON, Sept. 17. Trouble has commenced at Birmingr ham through the railway goodsmen. refusing to shunt wagons containing Dublin stout. When the night shifts arrived, the pickets persuaded them to refuse work. Collisions occurred with the ponce, due to the strikers- attempting to prer vent vans of provisions for the police entering the station yards. The Midland Railway management seeing the certainty of the trouble spreading, had been preparing for a strike for several days. They had been quietly drafting casual labour, and providing cooking arrangements.The North-Western and Great Western railway employees are also affected. Three thousand attended meetingin the Bullring, and passed a resolution supporting the strikers, on the ground, that Trade Unionists cannot handle goods loaded by "scab" labour.,. The situation at Liverpool, where four thousand men are on strike, is owing to the Edgehill Yard, the largest;, in Liverpool, refusing to join the "strike; The Trade Union Congress, delegates at Dublin failed to persuade the Em- ; ployers' Federation -to re-open negotiations. ■.' :', •>...■ There is much suffering, the strikepay amounting to only 3s last Saturv day. ■••>'■ It is unlikely that there will be any after this week.