SOLDIERS MOVING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 76, 29 March 1912, Page 7

SOLDIERS MOVING.

COAL STRIKE. INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE. NO GOODS TRAINS NEXT WEEK. ANGRY MEETINGS OF MINERS. WARWICKSHIRE MEN NOT TO WAIT FOR BALLOT. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received March 29, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, 28th March. Two, regiments from Alderehot have gone to Shrewsbury. The infantile mortality in Manchester has risen from 84 to 135 per thousand. There has been a similar rise in. "the Potteries" district. The railways have decided not to run goods trains next week, except for the carriage of food. Several of the companies have cancelled Easter excursion trains. There have been angry meetings at Warwickshire, owing to the strike pay fund being exhausted. The miners are demanding that the executive shall draw upon the pension fund. The Warwickshire miners' executive has ordered the men not to wait for the ballot, but to return to work immediately. SYNDICALISM. MANY CAUSES OF UNREST. GOVERNMENT WILLING TO HAVE ENQUIRY MADE. (Received March 29, 8.10 A.m.) LONDON, 28th March. In the House of Commons, the Hon. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, Unionist member for the Denbigh district, raised a debute on syndicalism. Mr. C. E. LobhoUse, Chancellor ot tho Duchy of Lancaster, said he did not think the doctrine had a real hold on the British Working classes. There were many caUses i of unrest. The Government Was willing to grant a wide enquiry into the Causes for the rise in the cost of living and of. industrial unrest. AT CANNOCK CHASE. MOB TAKES CHARGE. police overpowered; buildings burnt. Military aid invoked, LONDON, 28th March. Fivo hundred men of the Yorkshire Regiment have been sent to the Lyttle- ! ton collieries, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, where the mob is preventing the strikers reassembling on the surface and throwing missiles doVn, the pit upon thorn. Despite" the appeal of the miners' agent, the mob ( overpowered tho police and burnt buildings, doing damage estimated at. £3000. 1 Numerous baton charges were made by the police, who finally gent urgent messages for military aid from Lichv field. A detachnlent of infantry has arrived at Chirk. Two regiments, with ball ammunition and three days' rations, are entrained at Aldershot unknown to the : strike loaders. minimunTwage bill. IN HOUSE OF LORDS, MEASURE READ A SECOND TIME. LONDON, 28th March. The House of Lords has ftead the Minimum Wage Bill a second time. The Marquis of Crewe (Secretary of State for India) explained the circumstances leading to the introduction of the Bill. Lord Lansdowne, Leader of the Opposition in. the House of Lords, said the Government during the Address-in-Reply debate, had rejected the principle of the minimum wage, but had been converted by a colossal conspiracy into making the miners' grievances the pretext far a Bill which left to the men s loaders the power to sentence the country to starvation and ruin, and perliap* to humiliate and paralyse the nation. The Opposition would not embarrass tho Government by moving amendments. The Archbishop of Canterbury appealed to the Christian conscience of tho nation to remember the interests of its poorest and weakest members. Earl Grey said there was a battle proceeding between Radicals, individualists, trades unions, and the new Unionists, aiming at the abolition of private ownership. Lord Haldane (Secretary of State for War) denied that the -Bill was an attempt to buy off a conspiracy. The Government (relieved it better to take the simple principle of the minimum than to attempt to fix <vages. The committee- stage was postponed, owing to tho miners' leaders objecting to the wording of an amendment which the Government desired to introduce. [In the House of Commons last week, during the debate on the Addrees-in-Reply, Air. Ramsay Mac Donald, regretted that in the Speech there was no mention of legislation to secure a minimum wage, or the nationalisation of railways and mines and other monopolies, mid said that 60 per cent, of the wage-earners earned less than 30s a week. He criticised the Government for •upinely allowing the continuance of monopolies and the exploitation of the public. Workers were asked to trust in the Conciliation Boards and arbitration, but confidence In three methods was impaired. The workers now said : — "We have been cheated so often, and we ale not going to be cheated agaiii." Tho minimum wage ought to be the first charge upon industry, and monopolies ought to be nationalised. He moved an amendment favouring the principle of tho minimum wage, but it v/ie rejected by 226 votes to 45.j SUGGESTED COMPULSION. MR. KElft HARDIES IDEA. ANGRY SCENES AND RECRIMINATION. LONDON, 28lh Match. Mr. Keir Haidie, Labour M.P. far Merthyr'Tydvil, speaking at Camber* well, said that tin? Coal Bill should mako il i-oiwpulpoiy that both Bides iiuidt accept the Hill. The hoards might nteet on Friday or Saturday.' if the owner.; Wished to uoiioede llio 5s a nil 2s w d&y mi film urn mtes. After Hint, the details would be easy, and it would be pufaiblc lo have the men back at work on Jiaster Monday. The Time* slatee that Ihs split betwpen tlio trade union Avinj; ot' th* 1 h?<>cialist# *ud the Labuur Party recalled in

day night before it was decided to oppose the Miners' Bill. Mr. Ramsay MauDonald advocated that the party should abstain from taking part in the debate on the Bill. Mr. Henderson. Labour M.P. for Barnard Castle, Durham, declares that the Labour Party and the Miners' Federation will make their protest now. It behoves everybody to make the Bill effective. The question of minima of five shillings and two shillings ought to be the first business of the district boards. NORMALCONDITIONS DEMANDED SO SAYS MR. ASQUITH. ADMIRATION OF~THE PREMIER'S ACTION. (Received March 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON. 28th March. The Prime Minister, Mr. Asquith, addressing Liberal members of the House of Commons representing mining constituencies, emphasised the Legislature's recognition, of the principle ot a minimum , wage, and dwelt on the increasingly strong public demand for the resumption of normal conditions. The meeting paseed a resolution expressing admiration for the Premier's action, also appreciation of the benefits of the Minimum Wage Bill, ON BAIL. TOM MANN RELEASED. DEATHS FROM STARVATION. SHIPPINtTitJNG UP. (Received March 29, 8.17 a.m.) LONDON, 28th March. Mr. Tom Mann, the Socialist agitator, under arrest for ha-ving "feloniouely and maliciously published certain matter, called the Syndicalist, with the object of endeavouring to seduce persons serving in Hiß Majesty's Forces from their duty and allegiance to the King, and of inducing certain persons to traitorous and mutinous practice, contrary' to the provisions of the Incitement to Mutiny | Act of 1797," has been, released on bail, having promised not to repeat his remarks pending his. trial. There have been a number of deaths from starvation in. "the potteries" distriot. The Mayor's fund at Gfimeby, Lincolnshire, is relieving three thousand families. One thousand children are being fed at school. One hundred and thirty-teeven. vessels, aggregating 147.000 tons, are idle on the Tyne. Forty thousand Workers besides the miners are- unemployed. Five hundred of the Shropshire Welsh Fusiliers have arrived at Brynn-kinallt and Chirk, Wales, -where the strikers today accepted the masters' offer to resums work. The strikers in Midlothian, Scotland, are averse to resumption of work unless a minimum of 6e a day k granted. MEALS FOR THE STARVING NEW SOUTH WALES'S GIFT. SYd"nEY, 28th March. Mr. M'Gowen, the State Premier, has cabled to the Agent-General in London authority to spend £1000 to provider meals for 50 2 600 of those who are starving in the provincial towns in England. MORE TROOPS. GOOD ADVICE BY LABOUR LEADERS. (Received March 29, '11.45 p.m.) LONDON, 28th March. Trains are in readiness at Aidershot to- convey four thousand troops to disturbed districts. An additional sue thousand are being got in readiness. The Labour leaders have adjured the strikers to refrain from disorder in plaoes where men are resuming work; otherwise tho public sympathy will be alienated. (Received March 29, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, 28th March. The New South Wales Government is distributing Australian produce to the value of £1000 among the families of the strike victims.