GREAT LABOR UPHEAVAL.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3296, 15 August 1911, Page 5

GREAT LABOR UPHEAVAL.

MILITARY RULE AT LIVERPOOL.

COUNTING THE COST.

RIOTOUS SCENES IN SCOTLAND.

[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, Aug. lii. A general resumption of work is expected on Monday, although there <tre a number of misunderstandings in regard to the precise terms of the agreements. The factories are re-opening. The railway carter® declare that the awards will not affect them. Tlie carters for the five principal railway companies have «truck. Great unrest prevails in other avocations, there being numerous small strikes. There is virtually military rulo at Liverpool. Large quantities of provisions blocked at Edge Hill station were released by the military. Hundreds ol lorries, many driven by the merchants themselves, escorted by Scots Greys and Warwickshires, obtained possession of produce. The strikers did not make any demonstration. Tlie week’s strike lias roughly cost London £1,500,000. A thousand window-cleaners have struck.

COTTON INDUSTRY AFFIiCTED.

MANCHESTER SITUATION CRAVE.

RAILWAYMEN CEASE WORK

The situation at Manchester is grave. Eight thousand goods railwaymen have ceased work, and 500 porters and cleaners struck to-day. The men have no particular grievance, but are acting out of sympathy with others. Tlie Liverpool butchers are closing owing to a meat famine. The cotton industry is seriously affected. At Glasgow strikers detached a trolley wire and smashed a number of cars. Twenty strikers were arrested., A partial service is being maintained. Inspectors and other officials, under a> police guard, are. working the trams. The Glasgow tramway service is entirely suspended.

THE STORM CENTRE.

STATE OF SEETHING UNREST.

FURTHER HUGE STRIKES THREATENED.

(Received August 14, 9.10'p.m.) LONDON, August 14

The railwaymen are in a state of seething unrest, and the. storm centre at present is Manchester, where a general railway strike is threatened tonight unless the men’s demands are granted. The goods’ shed employees and carters employed by the Great Western Railway' Company at Bristol have resolved to strike for higher wages and a revision of their hours of labor. The Leeds men will next Sunday consider a general strike. Great Central Railway engineers demand an all-round increase of four shillings weekly, otherwise they will strike. Two thousand London railwaymen have decided to strike on Saturday unless a settlement is effected by then. Mi- Ben Tillet stated that over ninety per centum of the men would return to work to-day. He boasted that they had “got at tlie British public through their stomachs.” The Transport "Workers’ Federation advises its members only to work with men holding the. Federation ticket, but the employers state they will not refuse to employ non-Federationists.

THE RIOT ACT READ.

COMMOTION AT LIVERPOOL.

STRIKERS FIERCE ATTACKS ON POLICE. Fifty thousand people attended a Trades Union rally, organised by the National Transport Workers’ Federation at Saint George’s Plateau at Liverpool. The police sought to remove youths from a dangerous position on a windowsill. This spark started a riot lasting all the afternoon and well into the night. Ugly rushes were made on the police, who were a small force, antj were unable to clear Lime Street. They took refuge behind the iron gates of the railway station. The mob resisted their baton charges with sticks stones, bottles and bolts, and in hand-to-hand fighting stormed the station and burst in the gates. They demolished a, large hoarding for weapons, hut the railway staff kept the rioters at bay with a fire hose until the police were reinforced. The mob attacked the reinforcements with renewed energy, and the Riot Act was read.

MILITARY TO THE RESCUE.

STREET RESEMBLES A SHAMBLES

RAILWAY STATION A FIELD HOSPITAL.

(Received'August 14, 10.40 pan.) LONDON, August 14. When the Scots Greys and Warwickshires appeared the police charged again and scores of men fell under their truncheons. Bricks and bottles flew in a shower and injured many police, who were carried to the ambulances provided in the rear.

Idle street resembled a shambles. St.- George’s Square was cleared, but the rioters reassembled in the Islington district, where they erected barricades and lit fires in the street to impede the mounted police-. Rioters perched on the house tops rained bricks and tiled on the police below. ‘ " They also were attacked by firemen,

who were quenching what was supposed to he an incendiary fire. The hotels in the strike area have been'closed, and the hooligans retaliated bv smashing in the windows of shops and hotels. A van containing ginger beer was seized, and the bottles were used for ammunition. , One hundred and fifty civilians and forty police have been treated at the hospitals, after first aid was rendered at the Lime Street station, which was convertecL into a field hospital. There were broken limbs and ugly headwounds, and one policeman’s jaw was smashed by a bottle. Another null probably lose his leg. Superintendent Bolton has been critically injured. This guerilla, warfare in many thoroughfares continues. Serious disorders at Glasgow followed a mass meeting of the tramway strikers. The police and tramway officials were attacked, many of them being injured. The tracks have been obstructed by stones and several cars derailed, and their windows smashed. A hundred and fifty cars have been damaged. r PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. 3 CHRISTCHURCH, Aug. 14. The New Zealand Shipping Company lias been advised that* the Paparoa has arrived at* Plymouth with 80,000 earcases of mutton and lamb from New Zealand.