The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-17
ALI Railway Employees in Eng
land to Be Called Out.
Offer Of the Government to In.
terVene Is Refused.
RUNNING ON SCHEDULE
London and Liverpool Traffic
Still Is Maintained.
Recognition of the Unions Is a
Stumbling Block.

London, Aug. 17-An Industrial war
has been declared and the employees
on all the railways of the United King
dom will be called out at once.
Day-long conferences at the board oe
trade proved fruitless. The representa-
tives of the unions were irremovable
in their stand that the managers Of
the railroads had broken the letter and
violated the spirit of the conciliation
agreement.
We have unanimously come to the
conclusion they told Sydney Buxton,
president of the board Of trade, that
the only way that will now be an ef-
fective road to peace is that the COM
panies shall consent to meet u.s.
At this point Premier Asquith inter-
vened and offered to appoint imme-
diately royal commission which
should investigate and report what
amendments, if any, were desirable for
the conciliation plan.
Mr.. Asquith made the same proposi-
tion to the railroad managers, adding
the confident hope that the government
might rely on both sides to give all
possible assistance to the proposed
commission. The representatives of the
union refused, but the railway mana
gers consented to the plan.
The leaders in the amalgamated So
clety of railway servants this evenint,
dispatched kilograms throughout the
country calling on the men to cease
work.
Trains Still Running.
London, Aug. 1.-THE time limit on
"a hours within which the railways
We're to determine their employers
grievances expired at O clock this
morning bet the threatened general
strike on the railways Of the United
Kingdom failed to materialS- Instead
representatives of the four railway So
cletles involved went into conference
| with the Board of Trade.
| Traffic proceeded as usual NO for
mai orders We're given the union men
4 by their leaders but apparently It WAS
generally understood truce would be
observed while negotiations with the
Board Of Trade continued. Officials or
the railway mems societies arrived in
London from Liverpool early todly and
| Immediately met at the Offices of the
Analgamated society of railway SER
wants where they threw down the
gauntlet to their employers by adOJt-
ing the following resolution:
ihls Joint committee hereby express
our determination not to settle our
present dispute unless the lockout i'm
posed on our fellow workers because Of
their support of the railway men in
Liverpool and elsewhere is removed
Later the union leaders, numbering
40, met with the Board of TRACE off,
Gals.
London stations were running On .heir
regular schedules this afternoon. There
was much uneaainess among the men.
a large proportion of whom were re-
luctant to strike but feared they might
be forced to.
/ At Liverpool traffic was also MAIN
tained but the stations in that city were
guarded by soldiers with fixed bayon-
cts
! The armored cruiser Antrim has been
sent to the Mersey to protect the ship
ping there. The trains to and from
Manchester We're generally suspended.
The Transatlantic Shipping cornpany's 3
plan to coal and victual their liners at
American ports fer the round trip as in
the case of the Lusitania which is
scheduled to sail Saturday but has been
unable to obtain a crew or coal, are
likely to have trouble in keeping their
crews when the vessels reach England.
Tom Mann, the strike leader sum
married. the mems demands as follows ::
"A general increase in wages of 30 cents
week; a work week of So hours, end
/ the recognition Of the unions
The railway managers strongly OBJ
! ject to granting this recognition where
it involves dealing on their part with
representative of the men other than
! their own employees.