INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 148, 15 August 1911, Page 6

INDUSTRIAL UNREST.

—u (Received 15, 10.10 a.m.) London, August li. The coal ligntci men at '.> runshy struck for two pence an iuair increase.- All trawlers Jmvo •bi on rt>lido red idle. At tlie General Post - Office the niglit telephonists are agitating lor better conditions. ■j hero nave noon further riots at Liverpool and Birkenhead. air. Churchill, in the House of Commons, said that if necessary all the forces at the Government’s disposal would be used to secure the free working of London’s food supply. Ho said tnere was no improvement, m the serious position at Liverpool, and although Hooligans began the disorder, undoubtedly many strikers had joined. Attacks were still being made on warehouses, factories, and private houses, and the police were being assaulted. in the performance of their ordinary duties. Consequently the Government was of opinion that Hie police were entitled to effective military aid. Further troops had been ordered, making a total of a brigade of infantry and two regiments of cavalry. Mr. Churchill added, in reply to i\J'r. Ramsay MacDonald, that nothing would be done to weaken the action of the police, and there would he no enquiry into allegations until complete order had been restored. ah the leading railways have decided to resist the strikers’ demands, and insist on resumption and an appeal to a Conciliation Board. Mr. Lk>\d-Goorge announced that Messrs. Askwith and Buxton were comforting on the- whole question of improvement of the means available for preventing : or shortening industrial warfare.