Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-17
STRIKE SPREADS
IN ENGLAND
5XMP ATHIzER JOIN
merchants and MiIIers of Manehpst-
or appeals For Military protect;on
Government Seizes Railroads.

/ London, Aug. 16.-Twenty-five
thousand troops made up of detach
ments from practically every branch
OF the service, carrying all cartridges
and equipped for field service, are
being modelled at Aldershot tonight
to be rushed to the trouble centers OF
the great labor war that has been
pacitly declared throughout the Unit
ed Kingdom and 10 protect the meagre
supplies Of food that stand between
the people and starvation.
All the conferences held today at
the distance Of the government ana
the boards Of trades Of London and
Liverpool oRlE served To widen the
breach between The railroad men and
the companies and tonight critical
situation has reached climax TIC
strike fever has spread like fire to
the remotest corners Of the country
Liverpool is already a the starva
ton point. The bread supply. az
counted todag sufficiently to last tNa
days, is practically exhausted tonight
The majority of tie restaurants are
closed. Butter and eggs are se1line
ten cents higher taan yesterday and
all other provisions have advanced
proportionately.
Clashes between troops and striG-
efs are expected hourly The ranks
CT the men are being sWelled eontin=
tirually az workmen III ether line
of industry 20 out in sympathy 81
daylight there will be enough troops
bivouacked at Aldershot to cope with
the situation at any one point but
what may occur While the soidiel5
are being distributed, london fear
TO even conjecture tonight
Sidney Buxton, president Of Lon.
don Board Of Trad raB0fted 70 Jhs
home office late this afternoon te2t
his conference with the railroad
mems representatives had been fruit
less. simultaneously the same report
came from the government officers.
who had been in conference with tAe
officials of the railroad companies.
Seizure of the railroad lines Will b.
made by the government il necessary
for TRANSPORTATION of troops for to
various scenes OF disorder T4e DIRK
branch OF the Amalgamated Society
Of Railway Servants adopted resoln-
ton late today not to handle any
trains conveying soldiers and polio
10 the strike areas and it is stated
that the same action will be taken ny
other branches. Practically all OF
the railroads are refusing to BOOK
passengers for Liverpool and London
The signal men struck today at bot2
f.ities
The merchants and millers OF Man
chester nave dDI6dl0u Ava AiiA'A',NNf
protection and two regiments OF IN
= faptry are enroute to that city. one
hundred thousand railroad men VIII
he idle tomorrow. it is estimated To-
night. Seventy thousand of the tctae
membership of the Associated society
of Locomotive Engineers and Flfeheh
are unionists and fully thirty thous-
and more dissatisfied employees VIII
have Joined them by morning. lHe
Society extends to every railroad IL
the United Kingdom.
Five hundred infantry and lou cav
airy were sent to Cardiff, Wales, To-
night in response to an urgent reaoest
for protection from the LORD mayor
rbs intense anxietye felt throughout
the country was faithful reflected III
tho Horse of Commons, where the
s+,;ka was the oyershadowing issue
George Lansbury, the Socialist at
lacked the policy of using troops "
ouel, the disorder as blood THIRSTY
device" Secretary Churchhill refoft-
| ed that at all costs the government
world do all in its power TO protect
- food supply in the country ana
he non-unionists. DAVID hioSo
ceorge. chancellor Of the ENcae1u7i'
ee2orded the declaration.