The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-16
TROOPS SHOOT and
SABRE STRIKE MOB
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barrier of barbed wire and in other places
the streets were barricaded with dust bins
and household furniture. The street
lamps were extinguished, but relighed
after the police had charged the crowd.
| The sailing of the Cunard steamship
Caronia has been postponed indefinitely.
as is also the sailing of the Lake Cham
plain for Canada and the ICELAND for
Boston.
There are many Americans in Liverpool
anxious to get away. but for the present
there is no hope of their being able to
leave.
| The city is in bad way. The $500 police
added 10 by 2.SOO troops seem hardly able
to cope with the situation. The hospitals
have only a few days provisions and
there ia an unprecedented lack OF raw
material. The -four mills are closing
down and the coal supply is giving out.
| Investigation this morning after the
fight between the troops and strikers
early to-day showed that none had been
killed. Several persons we're injured.
however. in the charges Of the troops.
| Gen. Mackinnon Wood who is COM
manding the troops at Liverpool. states
that the soldiers refrained from firing
volleys at the rioters yesterday owing to
the presence Of women and children along
the streets where the rioters had congre-
gated. Gen. Wood says that bricks and
other missiles we're hurled from the
roofs of buildings down upon the troops.
and it was then that the commanding
officer ordered the soldiers to fire single
shots at the individuals in the upper
windows who were hurling the missiles.
The Atlantic Transport steamship line
has notified all shippers that the company
will not be able to ship any export cargo.
The steamships Minnewaska and Min
neapolis OF the line have had all their
bookings cancelled owing to the strike.
The line has also requested shippers not
to send any goods for those two vessels.
| Trade here this morning was completely
paralyzed and there is now tramway
strike in progress.
| LONDON. Aug. l5.-Winston Churchill
the Home Secretary. said in the House
of Commons this afternoon that the
strike situation in London had improved
very much. He denied that the soldiers
at Liverpool charged the rioters yesterday
with fixed bayonets and also denied that
there was any volley firing. The troops
said the Home Secretary. had fred only
individual shots.
| The Home Secretary declared that there
we're good grounds for believing tha,
the London freight handlers we're begin.
ming to realize the advantages that they
had secured by the recent settlement
/ LOT, ,I
ployers and that they realized that il
would be folly to leopard these advan
tages by any i'll considered action. II nc
untoward events occurred. Mr.. Churchill
continued. the Commissioner OF Polio,
hoped TO continue to maintain order il
London without the necessity for calling
in military aid.
The situation in Liverpool, continued
the Home Secretary. was not satisfactory
but the last reports received were favor
able as regards the keeping of order anc
the distribution of the necessary food
| The chief of police at Liverpool hac
sent telegram that there need not b,
any great Importance attached to tn,
rioting in the city Yesterday.
The general situation changes almos
hourly. hut there is little Improvement
The unrest at the docks continues ant
many sectional strikes occurred during
the night and morning on the varioui
railways running into London. Thes,
strikes are not sanctioned by the men
unions. 1t il estimated that 100000 mer
are out in various places.
| The situation in the railway men,
strike. however. was somewhat better anC
the men are seeking their old positions
The ma jority of the men employed or
the Great Western Railroad at Paddingtor
Station, the London terminus of the road
hav signed again.
A conference was held this morninl
at 10 Downing street, the residence O.
the Premier. on the general labor situation
| in the country.
Among those who were present wer,
Premier A SOUTH. Chancellor OF the Ex
ehe9uer Lloyd George. Syndey Buxton
the Attorney General. Sir R. Isaacs; G. r
Askwith Of the Board OF Trade; Sir Georg,
John Armytage. chairman OF the Lam
cashire and Yorkshire Railway. who
represented the railways; Sir T. Ellis. who
represented the coal mining interests,
Richard Henderson, shipowner and chair.
man of the Anchor Steamship Company
who represented the shipbuilding people
Sir Charles W. Maiara, president of the
English Federation of Master Cotton Spin.
ners Associations, who appeared for the
COTTON trade, Sir Andrew Noble, chair
man of Armstrong. Whitworth 4 Co.
Ltd, who represented the engineering
interests, and Stradforth Watts, who an.
peared for the shipping interests.
| The conference is officially described
as conference between the employers
associations interested in the great stapls
trades and the Government Ministers con
cerned. 1t was called for an informal
exchange of views on the present labor
unrest and for the discussion of the possi
bilities of shortening or preventing indus
trial disputes.
After the conference Premier Asouitt
and MIR. Buxton saw representatives OF the
unions.
| Lord Knollys. the Kings secrcta.y v
called upon MIR. Asquith this evening anc
with @. r.. Askwith, the strike settler
attached To the Board of Trade, they
conferred with Ben Tillet, Goslinp an(
other leaders Of the London dock 81 trike
The, result was that the freight handlers
strike committee sent out a manifesto
tonight calling upon union members
to honor and enforce all agreements.
/ The Port of London Authority has re-
fused to confer with the committee which
the strikers organized for such a purpose
Tho Port of London Authority Ia the body
which controls the administration oi
l.ondon's docks and IL made up of the
interests concerned and Government au-
| thorities.
! In Glasgow the strikes are collapsinp o
but in many English cities. includinI