Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-15
Strike Expected Which VIII
Seriously Cripple All Trade.
$4,000 Dockmen Locked Out
By Liverpool ShlpoWners.
Little Improvement In Other Sec.
tions.-Situation Serious.

London, Aug. 14.-Tonight there APP
pears little hope of averting a great
railroad strike which probably will be
accompanied by general labor re-
volt that will have a tremendous eff
feet on trade of the United Kingdom.
At meeting held In London today
by the managers of all railroads hav-
ing terminals here. it was resolved
that the time had arrived to resist the
mems encroaehments. The managers
contended that the men by striking
Will violate the agreement arrived at
in the railroad troubles of 1907 and un-
der which all disputes were to be re-
ferred to Cancellation boards or an ar
bitration This agreement, they say,
was to run until 1914. unless each
side gave notice of it's termination,
which has not been done.
Today's meeting was unanimous
that the only way to terminate con-
slant dislocation of business would be
to take firm stand and refuse all
concessions to the men. One manager.
after the meeting, expressed the fear
that there will be grave troubles on
all the railway systems of the coun-
try before the present week is ended.
Sectional strikes OF railway men
were declared tonight at Manchester.
Liverpool. Sheffield and other places.
London, Aug. 1.-THE strike fever
has become epidemic in Great Britain.
From one end of the country to the
other. men have either struck or are
threatening to do so and even the We
men and girls in the smaller factories
of the large cities are demanding bet
ter conditions of labor
In London the streets are commence
ing to resume their normal appear
ance. The van men began work early
in the day in an effort to make up for
lost time. AT the docks only portion
of the men returned to work and a
good deal of uneasiness prevailed as
many of the men refused to accept the
settlement arranged by their leaders
and demanded unconditional surren-
der on the part of their employers.
The same description fits the situa-
ton at the railway stations where
many of the porters and carriers are
demanding greater concessions than
had been agreed upon. Great quanti-
ties of meats and provisions held up
at the docks and the railway stations
last week We're found, when discharg-
ed this morning, to be damaged and
were taken out TO sea and thrown
overheard. The meat ships are being
coaled and the refrigerator plants
started again.
Quiet has been restored at Liverpool
following yesterdays rioting when a
policeman was killed and some 200
officers and civilians wounded. Rein
foroements of police have been
brought to the city and they patrolled
the streets today dispensing the
crowds wherever there was an at
tempt to congregate.
Glasgow, where the street railway
men are on strike. was also quieter.
bur the atmosphere was charged with
strife and the cars for the operation
of which the city has obtained more
than enough non-union drivers and
conductors, were guarded by police.
The railway men throughout the
country have assumed a threatening
attitude and complete tie-up Of the
railroad traffic is possible. Today the
locomotive engineers adopted reso-
luton in favor of a national strike.
This followed action of the 1000 Lon
don railway men employed on the
Midland Great Central and Metropolis
tan lines who last night decided to
call a general strike on all the surface
don district next Saturday unless
railways and subway lines in the Lon
their grievances were adjusted in the
meantime.
Home Secretary Churchill announced
in the House of Commons this after
noon that the government had order
ed complete brigade of infantry anu
two regiments of cavalry to proceed to
Liverpool.