The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-22
LITTLE CHANCE
TO AVERT STRIKE
England Faces Labor Crisis,
With 100000 Miners Out
Of Work.
GOVERNMENT pREpARIM G
Hereafter Reserve Officers May
BE Called Out When Encr-
gcncy Is Imminent.
GOVERNMENT PREPARING

London. October 21.--Labor unrea.
throughout Great Britain continues
In many well-informed quarters n 4.
believed that more serious disturb
ances are ahead than any that
have yet taken place There seeps
10 De iittic chance of averting tho
threatened national strike Of miners
which will throw not less than 30 o0o
men Immediately out of emStovn,nn,
and Is quite likely to involve ,he rail.
road employees
ihut the government is taking IN
usual steps 10 be prepared for ttis
or Tor any external crisis that my
arise Is made evident by "a royal wa
rant mat has just been included In
'he new army orders. Heretofore RI
serve ohicers could only he called ~,
IN national emergency-that Il.
when war had broken out. H.nce
forward they can be called out "whe,
Il national emergency appears TO bt
imminent.
winston Churchill In a speech 4,
his constituency In Dundee. muk.s A
perfectly clear that the government
intends. If neccpsary. TO use the en-
IRE strength OF the army to put dow N
any strike upon the railroads or at tho
ports that Will interfere with the
national food supply
we have been and are stilI n.as
ing said Mr.. Churchill, through 4
period CT labor disputes. marked hy
new and very grave features. EcrI
rev people have realizes how a5soy
iuteiy dependent we are upon the rail-
ways 1t Is no cSaggcration to So
that the complete stoppagc of TN
railways, and at the ports. would pro
ducc In short timc--in a time meas
urcd by days rather than weck...
throughout the vast Industrial ara;
OF Great Britain. and especially in
England. total unemployment. folio
cd b. absolute starvation. The.u
would be no raw material for DC
mills. no coal for the furnaces 10
food at the Sroccrs' shops, no bred
at the bakers. no meat at the Sutcl-
crs, no wages to buy any OF thos.
commodities, even II there were an.
to sell. no means of borrowing. NJ
escape from the famine areas. You
would have all the horrors OF war
which would descend upon the work
ing people in the towns. while IL
would not be case OF all dying to-
sether. Wealthy people. capitalists.
the aristocracy, tho landowners, and
the rural population generally would
scarcely suffer AT all
III once things went too far, IL
might not be possible. to recover in
time. even IL all classes worked to-
gcther. The trains might run again.
the ships might pour their cargocs
on to the quays. food might now into
some great outstarvcd district, daily
bread would be there agsin-only :.
week too late. That week would pro-
duce consequences which think
would satisfy even air. Keir Hardie
himself.
II say this hoping IL may reach the
eyes OF the Socialist party. The weapon
Of !, general strike is the most power
full in the world, but 1t can only hc
used for the purpose Of suicide. Ana
u is upon the working population in
the great manufacturing towns and
districts of Great Britain that It's cruel
edge would fall with absolute c@r-
tainty and with incredible swiftuesJ.
Tho government is bound 10 take the
most effective measures in its owner
81. To maintain order.
80. To prevent intimidation; and
%. TO secure the working OF tho
food supply"
This is probably the first time that
the British government or perhaps any
government has served notice on any
one class OF yorl:crs that they w!ll
not be permitted TO strike, although
admitting that their grievances were
just
Mr. Churchill went on to explain the
great increase in the cost of living b.
saying 1T was due to the enormous
Increase in the worlds output of gold.
lie continued:
The prices OF food and nccessnrics
have arisen in the last fifteen years
more than wages That Is aD undouSt
ed fact which every employer who is
a worthy citizen and wishes to be
good captain Of industry is bound %
face and do justice 10. II Is quite true
tint the prices of foodstuns have not
risen in these islands in anything like
the same proportion that they have
done in The United states or in the
protected European countries. So also
the expression OF discomfort in this
country has been much less vioent
and dangerous"
MIR. Chamherains complacent as
sumption that the cost OF living has
increased less in Circuit Britain IhaI
in the United states. and that the eN-
preston of discomfort here is less VIC
lent and dangerous, is essentially Brit
ish. Any American who witnessed the
recent shooting down of mobs ny
British soldiers. or who has 10 pay
current rents and prices for foodstuffs
in London Will have difficulty i'll un-
how Mr.. Chamberlain ar
rives so easily at his SNUG conclusion.
Recruit From reeroEe.
ISnecial Gable to The Times Dispatch
I.on@on. October 2I.--Muscal comedy ha.
claimel another recruit from the peerage-
Lady Sydney osiveGrant, sister OF the
Earl OF Seah'Sa. as resolved TO go the
stage.