The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-23
NAMES ENG[AND'S
 STRIKE COMMITTEE
Government Charged With Murder in Putting Down
 Strike

London, August 22.-Further progress was made today toward bringing to an end the labor disputes in the kingdom by the appointment of a government com- mission to investigate the railway prob lem and the local disputes of the Mid land and Northeastern railways. The per- sonnel of the commission is considered fairly to represent all the contending in terests It will get to work in a fort night and is expected to issue a report within @ month or six weeks. The com mission Is made up of Sir David Har- rel, former under secretary of Ireland, chairman; Thomas R. Ellis aRd Charles G. Beale for the railroads, and Arthur Henderson and John Burnett for the men.
 The terms of the reference of the dis pute to the commission are that 1t shall investigate the working of the concilia- ton and arbitration agreement of 1907 and report what changes, if any, are de- sirabfe with a view to prompt and satis- factory settlement of differences The settlement arrived at today brings | the Northeastern railway into the agree ment, concluded at the board of trade
  | railroads. Liverpool now remains the only serious point of labor trouble, the
 whole port there being tied up owing to the strike of the tramway men. | Parliament adjourned today until Oc- | tober 24, the government having decided it was not necessary now to propose special legislation to deal with the indus trial situation.
 In naming the commissioners Premier Asquith briefly congratulated the coun- tiy that the clouds had lifted, adding amid cheers, that the fewer words said in regard to the past the better.
 James Ramsey Mcdonald, chairman of the labor party, told the house that if the spirit shown on both sides during the course of negotiations prevailed in future relationship. the country had | heard the last of railway strikes in this generation.
 He criticised Home Secretary Churchill ana complained bitterly of what he de- scribed as reckless display of military force.'
 Parliament adjourned to october "A. MT. Churchills retort to MT MacDon- aid was that if the Llanelly rioters had heen left to themselves they would have wrought more damage and misery in two or three hours than the whole 5O,O0O | troops employed on strike duty. There was lively passage between James Kier Hardie, the socialist leader, | and David Llyod-George. chancellor of the exchequer. during the session. MT. Hardie accused the government of talk ing the side of the railways directors in the strike, and said if the government had brought the same pressure to bear on the directors as 1t had on the men | there would have been no strike. He declared vehemently that the men shot down by troops were murdered in the in- terests of a capitalist system As pro- test against the conduct of the govern- ment he moved as an amendment to the motion for adjournment that the house of commons adjourn to August 20, instead of October "A.
 MT. Lloyd-George replied that the great conflagration had been put out, but that | there were still smouderng fires here and there abount the country which at any moment might burst into flames He declared he knew nothing more likely | to bring about such a disaster and per- haps cause the men to fling away what their leaders had claimed was a triumph for them, than such grossly inaccurate statements" as had been made by MT. Hardie.
 The chancellor said there was not a
 syllable of truth In the allegations of MT. Hardie that the government had sided with the railroad directors The chancellor also asserted it was the pres sure brought to bear by the govern- 1 ment on the directors that induced them to meet the demands of the men. The government he added had used it's whole power to see that justice was done both parties to the dispute.
 | MT Loyd-George then referred to a | speech made by MT. Hardie in which he said the socialist leader had told a big | meeting that the premier was prepared | to shoot down every striker The chan cellor stgmatized this charge as baseless and contemptible.
 Mir Harde's amendment was then de- | feated by vote of 93 to IS.