Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-08-16
STRIKE RIOT
IN LIVERPOOL
Bread Famine Is Imminent
and Only Two Days Sup
ply on Hand
may TIE UP ALL RAILROADS
Great Britain Faces One of the
Greatest Labor Fights in
Its History.


t3y Special Leased wire to New Mexican)
London Eng, Aug. 16.-There was
little if any abatement today of the
strike fever that has spread through
Great Britain At some points sIch as
the London docks, conditions contin-
ued to improve but this was offset
By outbreaks elsewhere.
Bread supply Exhausted.
Liverpool, Eng, Aug. 16.-Unless a
railway strike is averted, two days
more will find the bread supply OF
Liverpool exhausted. The only bread
now in the city is that displayed in
the shop windows.
No Steamers Can Sail.
No steamers for America are likely
to sail from this port this week, as
they cannot obtain coal supplies.
The mails from America were for
warded to Queenstown to catch the
Southampton boat.
With the exception of Liverpool.
where there was rioting nearly all the
men generally are orderly and beyond
picketing and peacably inducing men
to join the Unions, did not interfere
with those desiring to work.
The fighting last night at Liverpool
which resulted in the death of two
hussats, who were defending five
prison vans occupied by riot prison.
ers whom the mob attempted unsuc.
cessfully to release, has not tended
thus far to improve the situation ex-
cept as it has helped to keep the
Ipeaceably disposed outside the strike
area.
This enabled the police more easily
to handle those who were causing
trouble.
Today, teams were busy removing
goods from the railway stations to
business houses. They were unmolest-
! ed Along the docks, however, work
was at a standstill and the men show.
ed an ugly spirit.
General Railway Strike.
| An ominous sign was the choice by
the leaders of the railway workers Of
Liverpool as the city from which to
direct the threatened general strike
on the railways which was declared
last night by the executives of the
Amalgamated Society of Railway serv-
ants, the Society of Locomotive En-.
oipoorc opd Eirapoou opd Nh, Copar,l
Railway Workers Union; to become
i effective within "a hours unless in the
interim the companies express will
ingness to negotiate for settlement
of grievances.
Famine Would Result.
Heretofore the railway strikes have
been managed usually from London or
some central point in the north. The
| threat to tie up all the railway lines
in the United Kingdom caused more
uneasiness than all the other strike
movements combined, for it was
known that if the effort was success
full it would completely cut off the
food supplies from the greater part of
the country. The government exerted
every influence to avert such a calam.
ity.
Will Not Handle Troop Trains.
The railway men at various centers
today notified their superiors of their
determination not to handle trains EN-.
ployed in conveying soldiers and po.
lice through the strike areas.
| Martial Law.
! A report was current this afternoon
that the government was likely to
/, respond to this action of the men
with proclamation of martial law
on all railways and replacing the
strikers with men from the Royal En-.
gineers Army service corps.
Strike Tomorrow.
London, Eng, Aug. 16.-The llti-
matum of the railway mems societies,
demanding that their employers meet
them in conference for the considera-
ton of grievances will expire at 8
o'clock tomorrow morning, when the
strike on all the railways in the Unit
ed Kingdom is scheduled to become
effective
Up to this evening, the managers
had not indicated a purpose to meet
the wishes of the strike leaders.
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