RAILWAY TROUBLE SPREADS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1207, 16 August 1911, Page 5

RAILWAY TROUBLE SPREADS.

MANY SECTIONAL STRIKES. NON-UNIONISTS BLAMED. (Rec. August 15, 9.25 p.m.) London, August 15. The railway labour war is spreading to Birmingham, Bristol, and Sheiheld. Numerous sectional strikes have also commenced. Three thousand men have struck at Manchester, and the trouble is extending to tho southern railway system. At a meeting of workers of the southern railways the Berniondsey Transport Federation announced that all the London railway depots would be blockaded today, and the companies notified that Tailway carters and allied workers should have been included, in last week's settlement. The Amalgamated Railway Servants' Society will meet to consider the situation. The secretary states that non-unionists started the strikes, and induced the unionists to join. Had tho railway companies -recognised tho union the trouble would have been averted. FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN IDLE. EPIDEMIC OF SMALL STRIKES. London, August 14. Fifteen thousand men are idle on the North-Eastern and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways. Thousands of bales of cotton are lying on tho quays and in the railway goods yards. Several Lancashire cotton mills have closed. The trade in foreign meat is also impeded by the hampering of railway operations. There is an epidemic of small industrial strikes.

The railway men at Swansea are. agitating for an eight-hour day, and a minimum rate of pay of thirty shillings a week. A meeting has been summoned to consider tho date to strike. The London and North-Western railwaymen at Coventry have protested against tho dispatch of men thenco to iill the strikers' places at Liverpool. The chairman of the Coventry branch declared that tho cause of the whole railway trouble was the Conciliation Board, which the men ought to smash. All fhe leading railways have decided to resist tho strikers' demands, and insist on tho resumption .of work ami an appeal to tho Conciliation Board, liaa a vulnerable pjriulr,

TROUBLE AT GRIMSBY. DISCONTENTED TELEPHONISTS. London, August 14. The cool lightermen at Grimsby have struck for a 2d. an hour increase. All the trawlers are lying idle. The General Post Office night telephonists are agitating for better conditions. Further riots have occurred at Liverpool and Birkenhead. THE'GLASGOW STRIKE. London, August U. The tramway service at Glasgow has been partially resumed. ,