STRIKES IN ENGLAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8443, 10 August 1911, Page 4

STRIKES IN ENGLAND.

MOVEMENT EXTENDING;

MANY THOUSANDS IDLE*- f

TRADK PARALYSED. STRIKERS' DISORDERLY CONDUCT.,.

Per Press Association-r-Copyright.

(Received August 10,"9.40; a.iri.) ' ' LONDON, August <). A «eneral strike of carters has boerr

ordered, involving a further 1(),000----men. Strikers overturned carts containing meat and wool leaving the docks. The cold storage porters have .struck. There were exciting scenes at Smithfield, the strikers roughly handling the salesmen and attempting to remove, carcases. A number of trucks vretQ overturned. - ' The Ruiiic's fruit shipment has not been discharged. All the foreign fruit trade at Covent Garden market is suspended. Business at the Corn Exchange, • Smithneld and Tooley Street is practically at a standstill. • - .

The clerical staff" at Waterloo goods station, refusing to perform porters* duties, have .struck. „, Mr Gosling, secretary "of the Transport Workers' Union, anticipates a speedy settlement as the outcome of the conference with Mr Askwith, & the Board of Trade.

Chaos reigns at the Liverpool docks, quays and railway stations. The strikers • demolished the fish boxes, which were scattered in all directions,

and looted a beer waggon and a milk van. The passenger porters, and vanmen have struck-

A hundred -workmen at Port Sunlight mills have struck for higher wages. The stcvedoies ask an all-round increase of 2o per cent, giving them at least 7s Gel a day. They also demand double pay on bank holidays and King's birthday, and that work shall cease pn twelve Saturdays in the year.

"Upon representations being made by the municipal authorities, Mr Gosling has arranged to allow the resumption of the barging of dust and refuse, which threatened to be a great public nuisance in the hot weather.

Five hundred Smithfield meat carters have struck. A strike of Manchester engineers ha*: rendered 20,000 idle. Four thousand railwaymon at Liverpool have "struck. ' Quantities'of meat, bxitter and other perishable goods cannot be moved. The fruiterers are" suffering severely.