The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-08-17
TROOPS FIRE ON
LIVERPOOL MODS
Bayonet Charges Also Are l...ade
On Rioters.
WAR OFFICE IS IN CHARGE
Leader Predicts $4,000 viii Be
on strlke-shi?pin0 at Liverpool
Thrown Into Chaos by Action
Trouble Covers Britain.

Liverpool, Aug. 15.-The troops
were compelled to fire on mob OF
strikers here. Bayonet charges also
were made upon the disorderly ele-
ment.
After the rioters had wrecked prop
erty in Great Homer street, the dis
trict troops were called out and or
dered to fire. Several volleys were
fred. The mob hid in courts and
threw bottles at the soldiers. who
made bayonet charges in the darkness
and fired volleys up the courts.
Eight Are Injured.
Six soldiers and two policemen were
injured. The casualties among the RI
oters is not known. General Mackin-
non Wood directed the troops. The RI
oters were hoodlums, no strikers be-
ing among them.
The strike committee declared a
general strike of all transport work
ers, including the railway men, who
up to the last had refused to go out.
The strike will be effective on all the
local steamboats, and the Mersey fer
ries. Seven thousand lockers struck
last night at Birkenhead.
The lockout threatened by the ship
owners became effective and 10000
men We're refused employment until
they decided to abide by the terms OF
recent agreement.
Much Disorder Seen.
There was much disorder in both
Liverpool and Birkenhead. and the
police were constantly in conflict with
disorderly crowds.
The plateau in front of ST. Georges
hall, where the rioting started Sun
day, became impossible because OF
the great crush of workmen. There
are frequent stampedes following the
efforts of the police to dispense the
crowds.
Several fires, believed to have been
Of incendiary origin, occurred. The
most serious was at the offices OF the
shipping federation, which were gut
ted by the flames.
Predicts $4,000 to Walk Out.
Tom Mann. the labor leader, said u.s.
900 men will be on strike. He declared
the transatlantic steamship traffic will
be tied up. In this connection the Gu
nard officials announce that the steam
er Caronia will be unable to sail for
New York Between 200 and 800 saloon
passengers, the greater number OF
them Americans, will be delayed.
Although the situation was not as
violent as it has been. matters were so
threatening that the war Office prac-
tically took charge and large military
reinforcements are expected. One or
the parks has been prepared for an en-
campment. The only way of moving
provisions is to convoy them with
strong attachments of soldiers who are
provided with ball cartridges.
General Rail Tieup Threatened.
London, Aug. 15.-The railway men
throughout the country have assumed
threatening attitude and complete
tieup of the railroad traffic is possible.
The locomotive engineers adopted
resolution in favor of national strike.
Three thousand dockmen on the
Surrey side of the Thames river have
refused to go to work because Of dis
pute ever wages. The street car men
have formulated their demands. which,
II not granted Immediately, threaten
to tie up the surface system Of London
and suburbs.
Southampton Workers Rebel.
Southampton. Aug. 15.-The strike
movement reappeared here when the
coal trimmers refused to coal the
American line steamer Philadelphia
unless their wages are increased. The
steamer is scheduled to sail for New
York on Wednesday.