The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-08-17

refusing to discharge steamers depart
ing for Liverpool. Glasgow, for ex-
amply which had just disposed Of a
street railway strike, now has dock
strike as a result Of the men declining
to remove a cargo of fruit from
steamer sent from the Merry.
Another omimous sign was choice
by the leaders Of the railway workers
OF Liverpool as the city from which
to direct the theatened general strike
on the railway which was declared last
night by the executives of the amalga-
mated society of railway servants, the
society, of locomotive engineers and
firemeh and the general railway work
ers union: to become effective within
twenty four hours unless In the in
term the companies expressed will
ingness to negotiate for settlement
of grievances
Heretofore the railway strikes have
been managed usually from London or
some central points in the north.
Uneasiness Caused.
The threat to tie up all the railway
lines in the United Kingdom caused
more uneasiness than all the other
strike movements combined, for it was
known that if the effort was success
full, it would completely cut off the
food supplies from the greater part of
the country. The government exerted
lamity.
This foreman, Sydney Burton, presi-
dent of the board of trade. conferred
with the managers of all the railroad
lines and in the afternoon he met the
leaders of all employees in the hope OF
bringing about a joint conference The
manages had insisted-npOn adhering
to the system of Cancellation boards,
with which the men are dissatisfied
An arrangement through which the
boards would deal more expeditiously
with the grievances of the workers
might lead to a settlement, it was
thought, and the members of the
board of trade worked along these
lines.
Should the railway strike take place,
the managers hope to maintain par
tial service on all lines and for months
have been preparing for such an even
tuality. They have already made up
time tables for a curtailed service with
the aid of non-union men, who COM
pose about three fourths of the work.
ers. The unions have about 10000
members.
The residents of many of the poorer
districts already are suffering from
prolonged idleness and in some sec
lions of London and other large cities
where the husbands and wives usually
contribute to the support Of their
homes. both are on strike and depend
ent on charity for food.
The trade of Manchester has been
completely dislocated by the strike in
the telephone service. Today the sig
nal men Joined the strikers preventing
the movement of trains, so even if the
teamsters were at work there would
be nothing for them to transport.
The striking freight handlers at Bir-
mingham returned to work today,
There appeared to be no danger of
resumption of the dock strike at Lon
don. The men were slowly returning
to their places. 1t was expected nor
NAL conditions would prevail tomor-
row.
Smaller and spasmodic strikes have
broken out in every variety of in
dustry throughout the country.
Railway men at various centers to-
day refused to handle trains convey
ing soldiers and police through strike
areas. A report was current this af-
ternoon that the government was like
ly to respond this action by a procla-
nation of martial law on all railways
and replacing strikers with men from
the royal engineering army service
corps.
Passengers for Manchester were in
formed that the railway companies
were unable to guarantee them trans
portatation further than Crewe, 25
miles southwest of ancheste