GOVERNMENT INTERVENING

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11749, 8 February 1919, Page 5

GOVERNMENT INTERVENING

MOTOR LORRIES PLYING. LONDON DESERTED AT NIGHT London, February 6. The Government is using army motor lorries to carry employees to Whitehall. Several newspapers urge that the hundreds now idle be used on the main affected routes. The owners of private cars are also invited to assist. Tne pieture papers are full of photographs of unprecedented scenes Pedestrians were never more numerous on "Waterloo, Westminister and London bridges. Bicycles aro being largely used. For the omnibuses there are queues everywhere. At Hammersmith there was a queue a mile long, standing several hours. There have been comparatively few accidents, but some women fainted, and others were hurt when scrambling on trams and buses. Some collapsed from exhaustion of long walks. London is deserted at night The theatres have suffered heavily Many leading hotels and restaurants where their own strike aggravated the situation, are practically empty.

The Government has ordered the immediate mobilisation of military motor lorries, with drivers, placing the vehicles in the main streets of London for the conveyance of city workers, giving preference t© women and girls. STRIKE AT SEATTLE. Vancouver, Feb 6. Seventy thousand have struck at Seattle in sympathy with the shipbuilders. A WARNING TO NEWSPAPERS. London, Feb 7 The Electrical Trade Union has written to the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association threatening to call upon the compositors to censor strike articles nnless„the newspapers are sympathetic 'towards the strike BLACKBALL MINERS RESUMING Greynsouth, February 7. The Blackball miners, at ' last night’s meeting, decided to resame and t© refer the"matter in dispute to the Local Disputes Tribunal. According to “go slow” tactics were conspicuous to-day by their absence, and the output of coal was normal. The dispute tribunal, representing the management and miners, meets probably on Tuesday to adjudicate on the miners’ “fonrteen point,” whecoh the grievances are bused. It is now hoped the dispute will he amicably settled,.