The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-18
England's Government Is Using Every Resource to Relieve Grave
 Strike Situation
THE ENTIRE ENGLISH
 ARMY ON THE MOVE
Troops Being Mobilized at Strike Centers in Anticipation of Trou- ble-Labor Leaders Issue
 Orders Calling Out Hun
 dred Thousand Men

London. August 1.-The strenuous. al most desperate efforts the liberal govern ment has made to prevent the greatest conflict between capital and labor that England ever has witnessed are trembling in their balance tonight. Representatives of the four organizations. comprising the Amalgamated Society of Railway S.rv- ants issued a strike order tonight ealing mt the 100000 members of their allied unions. The men were asked to strike Immediately
 Though the membership of the hnlons is less than one-sixth of the entire force o' railway workmen, it includes the highest skilled laborers employed by the com panies and If they all keep in inc they will be able to cripple the traffic of the entire United Kingdom.
 The vital question in the situation now Is how large a proportion of the men will respond to the strike order. No one can answer the question or even attempt to summarize the situation tonight.
 At midnight neither the board of trade the railway managers nor the union lead- CTS have any definite information on how far the men were responding to the strike order. Telegrams were pouring in that 1ooosmen had struck here and 800 at an other place. but the messages were based largely on guess work. As far as Lon daf is concerned the strike has not yet -1yisibIy affected traffic. All trains are moving as usual and the only disturbance reported was a small row between union and non-union men at the St. Pancras station.
 Late tonight the executive committes of the strikers issued statement saying
 Results from the provinces point to ar early decisive victory"
 The leaders. however, could not give details supporting this assertion.
 Strike Stand Off
 The government has been successful 1T its attempt to stave off the strike. .hicf had been scheduled to begin at o'elocl this morning, and then Davio Lloyd George, the chancellor of the excheqser stepped into the breach in the house O commons after the days conference ef tht board of trade had resulted in failure 1T an endeavor further to delay the walkou S of the men and bring about an amicablt settlement of the controversy.
 The chancellor reported that todays nc. gotiations and Premier Asquiths offer tt form a royal commission to effect settle ment of the strike had resulted in inls understanding of the men, which miSh yet be put straight. But the spokesman of the railway employees refused to accep' MT. Lloyd Georges views and insist CT 1f,,rr th2 rtriI naU not been definitely broken off.
 Premier Asquith's proposition was :; form a royal commission of three mem bers one from the railway companies one from the strikers and the third ths chairman, a man well known for his i'm partiality. The railway companies rep resentatves accepted the proposition but the employees rejected 1t.
 A dramatic feature of the affair h that England's army Is on the move Its activities might be described d: nearer a mobilization than at any time for some years The government is de ploying troops to meet the emergenc, all over the country.
 At Aldershot tonight 15,000 soldiers were loaded on 22 trains. The authori ties refused to make public their des tination, but a large proportion of tn, troops have come to London and ar, encamped in the parks and near tn, railway stations. Four thousand in fantry are in Victoria park in the eas end of London, and center of its mos turbulent population. Three thousand infantry are raising tents in Regen park, another 5000 in Hyde park, 60i are guarding the general postoffice ane another 500 are encamped at the towel of London. The only London railwa, station where soldiers are m evidence Is Clapham Junction, the center of sev n1 .t,k ,k,,,-l 1f,...a. aiaI ha guards are picketing Elsewhere troops are being moved to stragetical points all over the country.
 Government Plans Made
 The governments plans to cope witt the strike seem fully arranged. Tn, tunnels and the signal boxes are tn, chief point which it purposes to pro tect against possible violence
 The official history of the day ma, be briefly told. Premier Asquith an, the board of trade conferred separate ly with the representatives of the rail way companies and the men. Premier Asquith offered the men royal com mission to settle the trouble and re iterated that the government was de termined to protect property. The com panies accepted the proposition bu the men declined ii. David Lloyd George chancellor of the exchequer announced Tn t16 house or commons after the conference that the mer thought the proposals of a royal com mission was the usual scheme to eff feet delay and that was the reason they did not accept 1t.
 At the conclusion of a conference be- tween representatives of the men and the officials of the board of trade this even ing a manifesto was issued by the com mttee of the Amalgamated Society ot Railway Servants, which Is associated with the Society of Engineers and Fire men, the General Railway Workers union and the Signal Mems and Pontsme, (switchmens) society. It announces Pre- nier Asquiths statement made to the rep resentatves of the employers at the board Of trade this afternoon in outlining the government's position in regard so the proposed strike as an unwarranted threat against the railway workers, who, it says constantly have appealed to the govern ment to amend the conciliatioh boar1's scheme so that it's machinery would be adequate to remedy the mems grievances
 ''The failure of the board of trade to amend it's own scheme and of the railway companies to give fair and impartial in depreciation to said scheme Is the primAr, cause of the unrest the manifes9o-S;y $ which is not limited to any one cPmpan, or grade, but is common 10 all. We re- ~-~~~-1 ~>------