Complex sentence: The strike begins to spread to other areas of the country with no official union involvement, panicked, the UK government deals with strikers with increasing violence and repression, demonstrations turn into riots, and the Captain is arrested on false charges of conspiracy.
Split into simpler sentences: The strike begins to spread to other areas of the country with no official union involvement. Panicked, the UK government deals with strikers with increasing violence and repression, demonstrations turn into riots, and the Captain is arrested on false charges of conspiracy.