SETTLED JUST IN TIME.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8452, 21 August 1911, Page 5

SETTLED JUST IN TIME.

THREATENING ASPECT OF

AFFAIRS

(Received August 21, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, August 21;

The timeliness of the settlement is illustrated by the position Up to midnight. The paralysis of transport due to the strike rendered idle 12,000 men in the collieries and iron and steel works in Cumberland, a thousand in Derbyshire and at Middlesborough.

Eight thousand colliers at Nottingham, ten thousand at Durham, forty thousand in I North Cumberland and two thousand at Bishop Auckland were threatened with idleness within two days; also two hundred thousand in Wales: '■"■■

Four thousand dockers at Bristol struck out of sympathy with the railway men.

Acts of wanton destruction rapidly increased in many directions but the lines on the whole are well controlled.

The continued despatch of troops to the threatened areas had an important influence in securing peaceful methods.

The Home Office reports that the port of London is almost full. Owing to the activity of the Amalgamated Society it is estimated that the strikers this evening numbered a quarter of a million. Its executive made a gratuitous allowance of 6s a week to non-unionist strikers, of whom there are six thousand of all trades.

Some lawyers and doctors volunteered as special constables in London and a hundred were sworn in.

The London and North-Western Railway Company gave the loyalists double pay. The London and Brighton Core-

pany promised ' a reward to nonstrikers. The passengers on many trains made collections for -the loyalists. ! '..■;''" . ,' '' \ >•■-,:'■

Lord Derby insured Kriowsley Hall for £191,000 against strike riots, at a premium of a shilling per cent monthly. Numerous insurances on warehouses and shipping are reported.