IN PARLIAMENT.

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

IN PARLIAMENT.

A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. DISPATCH OF TROOPS. London, August 14. Mr. Winston Churciiul, Secretary of tiiate lor Home Auairs, speaking in the House of CoiamoiiS, said that, if necessary, all the forces at tho Government.'s disposal would be used to secure the Ireo working of London's food supply. There was no improvement in tho serious position at Liverpool, the Minister continued. Although hooligans began the disorder, undoubtedly many strikers had joined, and attacks were still being uiaaj on warehouses, factories, and private houses. The police had been assaulted in the performance of their ordinary duties; consequently, in- the opinion of the Government, the police were entitled to effective military aid. Further troops had been ordered to Liverpool, making a total of a brigade of infantry and two regiments of cavalry. •

The Minister' added, in reply to Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, of the Labour party, that nothing would be done to weaken the action of the police. .No. inquiry would be made into the allegations against them till complete order had been restored. SETTLEMENT OF STRIKES. A GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE. London, August 14. Mr. Lloyd-George announced in the, House that tho Prime ■ Minister (Mr. Asquith) and tho President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Sydney Buxton) were conferring on the -whole question of tho improvement of the means available for preventing or shortening industrial warfare. CAMBRIAN STRIKE ENDS. A LONG STRUGGLE OVER. (Rec. August 15, 10.45 p.m.) London, August 15. The Cambrian combine miners in South Wales, after a ten months' strike, have decided to resume work. PRESS COMMENT. "FROM LIMEHOUSE TO LIME STREET," THE MEN AND THEIR LEADERS. London, August 14.

The "Pall Mall Gazette," commenting on the. strike disorders, says that the workers generally had interpreted Mr. Lloyd-George's denunciation of tho governing classes in their own ignorant way. From LimehousG to Lime Street was an easy transition, through several phases of covert encouragement and masterly inactivity in the protection of life and property.

Th-3 most serious feature, in the opinion of the "Westminster Gazette," is the tendency of the men in nil trades to break away from their official leaders. If the railway difficulty were merely a question of interpreting arbitrators' awards, tho remedy would 1)c easy.