LONDON POLICE TROUBLE

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4964, 3 September 1918, Page 5

LONDON POLICE TROUBLE

SOLDIERS CALL STRIKERS “SLACKERS.” MR, LLOYD=O. EQRGE SYMPATHISES WITH THE MEN. HOW A SETTLEMENT WAS REACHED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assocmtioa. LONDON. Sept. 1. The Press Bureau reports Lieut.General Sir Cecil 1. N. Alacready succeeds Sir E. R. Henry as Commissioner of Police for the metropolis. The King lias conferred a baronetcy on Sir E. R. Henry in recognition of his fifteen years’ distinguished service. Soldiers who have been fighting resented the police strike. A\ bile the strikers were proceeding to the Strand tliev captured a special constable who'was regulating traffic and compelled him to march with them. A number of sailors and colonial soldiers rescued him. booed the processionists and asked, “V by don't you join the Army, you slackers?” The police settlement was avnved at after a conference with Mr. LloydGeorge and other Ministers,. with the executive of tlie police unions. A mass meeting of strikers unanimously endorsed the terms, which are an increase of 15s weekly to all ranks, plus the existing war bonuses of 12s and 2 s 6d for each child of school age, also a new concession of noncontributing pension to widows of 10s weekly and £2 yearly for each child. The unconditional reinstatement or Thiel was agreed, and the official recognition of the authorised body, but not the police trades union. Tlie meeting cheered the president’s statement that Mr. LloydGeorge was indignant at their treatment- and intended to ascertain why he had been kept in ignorance of their grievances.