INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 15 August 1911, Page 5

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

FIGHTING EM LIVERPOOL. MOB STORM THE POLICE. THE RIOT ACT READ. MANY CASUALTIES. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright United Press Association. London;, August M. Liverpool police sought to remove some youths from a clangorous position Oil a window-sill. 'lnis was tlie sna: k that started a riot, lasting all too afternoon and well into the night, j’nero wore ugly rushes on the ponce, v. no wore a. small force and unable to clear Lime Street, and had to seek refuge behind the iron gate at the ; ,illv.*as station. The mob resisted baton charges witn slicks, stone;.-,

1,.P iles, bblts, and hand to hand lighting onsuuu. the mob storm M Lie stiuion, burst in the gates, and demolished a hoarding, using the pieces for weapons. due railway stalf kept the rioters at bay with a lire hose until the police were reinforced. The mob attacked the reinforcements with renewed energy, and Li to Riot Act was road. Detachments of Scots Greys and the Warwickshire's appeared, and the police charged. Scoves of men 101 l under their truncheons. Showers of bricks and bottles foil and injured the police, who were carried, to am balances in the rear. duo stieet resembled a shambles. St. George’s Square was cleared of rioters, who reassembled in the Islington district. Hero they •erected barricades and lit lives in the street, which impeded the mounted police. phe rioters from tho housetops rained bricks on the police. They also attacked tho firemen who wore quenchiug (it is supposed) incediary fires. iho hotels are closed. The hooligans retaliated by smashing the winclows of shops and hotels. A van containing ginger beer was seined, and the bottles used as ammunition. A hundred and fifty civilians and forty police were treated in the hospitals," after first aid had been rendered at tho station, which was converted into a field hospital. There wore broken limbs and ugly head wounds. A policeman’s jaw was smashed by a bottle. Another will probably lose a leg. Superintendent Bolton was critically injured. Guerilla warfare in many thoroughfares continues. The railwayman are seething with unrest. The 'storm centre is at present at Manchester, where a general railway strike threatens to-night, miles;: toe men’s demands are granted.

The gocdshed employees and carters of tne (treat Western Company at Bristol resolved to strike for higher wages and the revision of hours. The Leeds men next Sunday will consider the advisability of a general strike.

Tiro Great Central Railway engineers demand an all-round increase of four shillings weekly; otherwise they will strike. Two thousand men arc involved.

The London railwayman have decided to strike on Saturday unless a settlement is effected. Mr. Tillett stated that' over 90 percent. will return to work to-day, and boasted that they had got at tire British public through tlroii; stomachs. The Transport Federation advise members only to work with men holding; a Federation ticket. Employers state they will not refuse try employ norr-Fodorationists. Fifty thousand attended tiro trades union rally, organised by tiro National Transport Workers’ Federation. SERIOUS DISORDERS IN GLASGOW. THE POLICE ATTACKED. London, August 14. Serious disorders irr Glasgow were followed by a mass meeting of tramways strikers. The police and tramway officials were attacked. Many wore injured. Tracks were obstructed by stones, and cars derailed and the windows smashed. A hundred and fifty cars were damaged. TO-DAY’S MESSAGES. A GERMAN OPINION. (Received 15, 8 a.rn.) Berlin, August 14. “Zeit,” commenting on the effect of tire strike on food supplies, pointedly remarks that Britain has a vulnerable point. STRIKE RIOTS. London, August 14. r J hirty thousand dockers at Liverpool have been locked out. Ninety arrests were made in Liverpool. There was a fierce affray at midnight in the north cud of the city. Tiro mob extinguished the gas lamps and tore down a wall for missiles. The police were unable to cope v ith the mol), and the military was utilised. Four revolver shots were fired, arid the street cleared. Many persons wore injured. Four hotel's were smashed in and provision shops looted. 1 The strike leaders from the first outbreak bravely risked injury from both sides in an effort to calm the crowd. They blame the police for precipitating tfie disturbance.

The doctors were a couple of hours bandaging and stitching the injured. i &t. George’s Hall is a temporary hospital. Scores were laid on a table. A fireman was scalped by a brick. An officer of the Warwickshire Regiment was inbirod.

if teen thousand men are idle on tho North-eastern, Lancashire, and ) orkshiro railways.

r ! housanls of bales of cotton are lying on tho quays and in railway goods vard.

Several Lancashire mills have closed.

Tho trade in frozen meat is impeded by an epidemic of small industrial strikes.

( Received 15, 0.1 5 a.in.) London, August M. The London and North-Western railway men at Coventry protested against tho despatch of men from Coventry to till strikers’ places at Liverpool. The chairman of the Coventry branch declared that tho cause of the whole railway trouble was the Conciliation hoard, which the men ought to smash. The tramway service at Glasgow has partially resumed.

Tho “Pal! Alall Gazette” says the workers generally interpreted Mr. Lloyd-Gcorge’s denunciation of tho governing classes in their own ignorant nay. From Limehonse to Lime Street was an easy transition through several phases of covin t encouragement and masterly inactivity in the protection of life and property.

The “Westminster Gazette” says tho most serious feature is the tendency of men of all trades to break away from their ollicial leaders. If the railway dilliculty was merely a question of interpreting arbitrators’ (Received 15, 1U a.in.) London, August 14.

There has been no general resumption in London owing to tho Port An-

tl’.oi ity dismissing 100 pt*r_mn nojit- it’.en fr>r striking. !I in Autlim ity Jims nowpromised to consider their reinstatemcnt ns a condition ol genera! resumption, but (.lodines a request on behalf of the Surrey Commercial Docks poi ters i o re-open the question for tlie payment ol mealtime. r i'lio situation in connection witli rr.i'vvay carmen is critical. The goods drivel s and porters at Paddington are idle. The Loudon County Council tramwaymon will strike on Wednesday unless their wages are advanced, with a coi:cv ssion of eight hours a day.

The situation at Smitliilcld is normal.

Butter business has not been resumed. Tiio wharf labourers are still cut.

Many women tea-packers have struck in the London factory. Women at Bermondsey held meeting-; to demand improved pay. torn Maun is making daily speeches at Liverpool. The Swansea railwayman are agitating for eight hours a day, with f)Us per week. They have summoned a meeting to consider the date for a strike. AUSTRAL! A. Brisbane, August 14. Two steamers have arrived at Brisbane. Neither will carry sugar. Melbourne, August 14. A grocer who bought a ton of the Aramac’s sugar went to remove it, and was intimidated by the pickets. Mr. Johnson, manager of the Miliquin Sugar Company, accompanied him to the wharf, and personally loaded the sugar.

Sydney, Am.gust' 14

At a public meeting held at Lithgow it was resolved to request the Federal Government to withdraw the iron bonus from Hoskins, Limited, until tlio men’s demands were granted. awards tlie remedy was easy. (Received 15, 8.20 a.m.) Brisbane, August 15.

The conference sat till midnight. The Minister of Works then announced to the press representatives that negotiations had been concluded, and an agreement drafted and approved, which would bo completed at noon today.’ It is understood the-settlement is on a basis of 48 hours a week, o/ertimo to bo paid only after nine Honrs. The settlement covers not only the sugar dispute, but any possibility of a dispute in the various callings represented by delegates to the conference. Field work will not he touched in the agreement, the delegates withdrawing their demands. The delegates gave an undertaking that work would he immediately resumed.