BLOODSHED AT LIVERPOOL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 5

BLOODSHED AT LIVERPOOL.

RIOTERS SHOT DEAD BY TROOPS. GEMERAL STRIKE THREATENED ON THE RAILWAYS. ultia™ to the companies.

By Tcleeraph—Press Association—Oopyrlehl (Rec. August 16, 11 p.m.) London, August 16. A joint congress of the Railway Servants', Locomotive Eugmeers*, firemen's, Signalmen's, Pointsmen's, and. General Workers' Unions met at Liverpool and considered the position. ' It was unanimously decided to give the railway companies twenty-four hours to negotiate a settlement. Otherwise a general striko will begin on Thursday morning. The conference also passed resolutions condemning tho company's method of working the conciliation scheme, tho action of the police, and the employment of tho military in Liverpxil. A general railway strike will involve 360,000 workers. - Tho passenger services are becoming dislocated, and goods traffic is at a stand- ; still. Tho mob at Sheffield is turbulent, and is on the verge of rioting. A provision cart was -upset and some stone-tkrowjng took place. Twenty-fivo thousand men are idle at Manchester. Tho police are escorting cotton from tho docks to the mills and have not been molested. Tho distress caused by the striko at Bermondsey is acute, and relief rations are being distributed;