Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-08-18
Hundred Thousand Employees
of Railroads Ordered to
Cease Work and ParaIyze
Transportation System
MILDER METHODS FAIL
TROOPS ORDERED OUT
Small Army Rushed to London
and Government Is Detem-
ined to Prevent Disorder and
Protect Property.

Protect Property.
fBy Morning Journal Special Leased wirs.y
| London, Aug. 1.-THE strenuous,
almost desperate efforts the liberal
| government has made to prevent the
greatest conflict between capital and
labor that England has ever Witness
ed are trembling in the balance to-
night.
! Representatives of the four organi-
! cations composing the amalgamat-
| ed society of railway servants issued
a strike order tonight. calling out the
| 100000 members of their allicd
| unions.
The men were asked TO strike
| Immediately. Though the member
ship OF the unions contains less than
one sixth of the entire force of rail-
way workmen, II includes the highest
panies and If they keep in line they
will be able to cripple the traffic of
the entire United Kingdom
The vital question in the situation
now. is how large proportion of the
men will respond TO the strike order.
No one can answer the question. or
even attempt to summarize the situ-
! alton tonight.
At midnight neither the board of
trade, the railway managers nor the
union leaders had any definite infor-
nation as to how far the men were
| responding to the strike order. The
kilograms were pouring in that a
thousand men had struck here and
500 at another place, but the mes
sages We're based largely on guess
work. As far as London Is con.
cerned the strike has not visibly af-
| fected traffic yet. All trains are on
time as usual and the only disturb
| ance reported was Il small row be-
tween union and non-unlon men at
the st. Pancras station. Late tonight
the executive committee of the striki
ers issued statement saying:
"Results from the provinces point
to an early decisive victory"
The leaders, however, could not
give details supporting this assertion.
The government has been unsuc-
cessful in its attempt to stave off the
strike. which had been set to begin Mt
3 o'clock this morning, and tonight
David Lloyd George, chancellor of
the oxchequer. stepped into the
breach of the house of commons af-
ter the days conference with the
board of trade had resulted in fail
ure In an endeavor to further de-
lay the walkout Of the men and bring
about amicable settlement of the
controversy.
The chancellor reported that to-
days negotiations and Premier AS
quith's offer to fern ROYAL commits
| sion to affect settlement OF the
strike had resulted In a misunder-
standing whicn might yet be put
straight. But The spokesmen OF the
railway employees refused to accept
MIR. Lloyd Georges views and insist
ed on calling the strike, even when
the negotiations had not been defi-
nitely broken off.
At Aldershot tonight $1,000 soldiers
| were loaded on twenty-five trains.
The authorities refused TO make pub
lie their destinations, but a large pro-
portion of them have come to Lon
| don and are encamped In the parks
and near the railway stations Four
thousand infantry are in Victoria
park in the east end Of London, the
center of its mosts turbulent popula-
ton Three thousand infantry are
| raising tents in RegentasIi Iishrdlueta
three thousand in ilyde park, sly
hundred are guarding the general
| postoffice and 900 are encamped at
| the Tower. The only London raii-
way station where soldiers are In evi
dencc is Clapham junction, the cen
ter Of several suburban lines, which
the Scots guards are picketing. Else
where troops are being moved to
strategical points all over the country.
The governments plans to cope
with the strike seems fully arranged
The tunnels and the signal boxes are
the chief points which 1t purposes to
protect from possible, violence.
How tenaciously the government
is clinglng to hope for a settlement
OF tho dispute and Is working to so
arrange one was displayed by David
Lloyd George, chancellor OF the
| exchequer. In n speech in the house
! Of commons tonight, which quickly
sent board the impression that the
situation had taken a strong turn for
| the better end tte, fears of an i'm
mediate At Ike might vanish.
Ramsay Mcdonald, the labor lead
or. In the lower hcnse, was prepared
I to move a vote of censure against
| the government for It's use of the
military In strikes and because of it's
general attitude in the present stu-
alton. Fce'ing in the house ran high.
Mr.. Ii ,yd George, however, arose and