GENERAL STRIKE CALLED.

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

GENERAL STRIKE CALLED.

SERIOUS OUTLOOK AT LIVERPOOL ' )

THOUSANDS OF TROOPS POURIMG INTO. THE CITY.

RAILWAY WAR SPREADING.

By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyrieot (Rec. August 15, 11.45 p.m.) / London, August 15. The Strike Committee at Liverpool has issued manifestoes to 100,000 workers, calling a general strike. It is pointed out that the shipowners forced a lock-out, and tho railway companies have not shown any willingness to negotiate. Tho authorifos are dispatching military foroes to tho city.

Tho Transport Federation is determined to stand firm and cease work at midnight.

There have been two skirmishes between rioters and the police, but the military quelled the trouble.

The mob barricaded Christian Street, and placed wire entanglements in the side streets. .

The offices of the Shipping Federation have ken burned, and incendiarism is suspected.

The strikers cut the fire hoses, but the police dispersed them after a sharp conflict.

A hundred men and women have received sentences of imprisonmeint, ranging up to three months, in - connection with Sunday's riot. j.

Seven thousand dockers participated in riots at Birkcohead. One policeman was seriously injured.

Tho strikes were mostly unsanctioned by the union executives, and the strikers will, therefore, not receive financial benefits. THOUSANDS OF TROOPS READY. BIG FOBCE ON THE MOVE. (R«c. August 15, 10.45 p.m.) London, August 15. Five thousand infantry and cavalry are in readiness to proceed to Liverpool. A hundred men of the Scots Greys and two detachments of Hussars havo already been dispatched.

Nearly 3000 troops, under Major-Ganoral Sir TV. H. Mackinnon, C'ommander-in-Chief on the Western Guard, are already located at Liverpool.