CAVALRY TO PATROL RAILWAY LINES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 18 August 1911, Page 5

CAVALRY TO PATROL RAILWAY LINES.

MANIFESTO FROM RAIL-

WAYMEN.

FURTHER RIOTING IN LIVERPOOL.

«? CABLE—PSESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Aug. 17. Every available soldier) at Aldersliot as under orders for service on the rail:ways. The men -will be stationed along "the/lines. Cavalry will be utilised at 'the large stations, and will patrol the tlines. Twenty-five thousand soldiers are ready to move in a few hours. Similar orders have been issued at •other military stations in England and <'Sp6tla.nd. Several detachments have-arrived in London, Only one-fourth of the railwaymen are .:members of trades unions. The railwaymen have issued a manifesto demanding 'the. same opportunities as a combination as other workers, also to have their wages and hours settled by their ■own union! They are determined to accept nothing less, and will settle the job now once and for all. The Daily Mail states that at the ■conference Mr Askwith asked the companies to meet the union officials half way. They refused. The York railwaymen decline to Tiandle the trains conveying soldiers and police. . . Widespread unrest exists in the North-East Coast among the colliers, -stevedores, boilermakers, and shipyard laborers. Further rioting took place at Liverpool. A mob smashed the windows of the "tramways, and took no. notice of the 'display of force until the military knelt in an attitude for firing. Then they Tiurriedly left and scattered, the assemblages being dispersed by baton charges in various parts of the city. The' tramwaymen threaten to strike to-day. • • The police secured the services of an armed motor wagon. . Owing to the shortage of coal the Xiverpool co-operation humanised milk depots are closing, depriving 700 of the poorest children of all sustenance. Business in Manchester is demoralised. The strikers have notified the Post 'Office not to permit postmen to suptrtant the railway porters who unload mails, j Th& ranks of the strikers are swelling j "hourly.

The police, in arresting a striker, were attacked with stones and bottles and pieces of iron. Five were severely in in red. The prisoner escaped.

Thft railway services have been reduced 60 ncr cent.