The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-08-17
SOlDIE.RS TO MAN
ENGLISH TRAINS
If STRIKE COMES
British Cabinet Com
sIders Calling Up
ON War Office
MEN DE TERMINE D
str'l<e is Called and Managers
Refuse to Ir at With
HEM in Any Way
MEN IDl: TER!MINE d

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London, Observation-Disclosures Asuuiil
TODAY called AN cN1raordinaiN Sos.
sion OF the cabinet TO discuss III,
Industrial crisis caused NV strikes IL
Bingham If the cabinet tails tt
avert the proposed big strike of an
Tue iallrGad men in the country. Nh.
war Office Will call out the enginco,
ana service corps of the army to run
the trains.
When the railroad men 20 nut.
thousands OF other workers will Join
th"m. The managers have refused to
treat with the railroad men.
J. scmi-panic occurred on the
Stock exchange this morning. There
were several small failures and SER
lous trouble is expected.
NNaF-riots occurred in the House
oi Commons today when the labor
leaders attacked Home Secretary
Chulchill. demanding4a an explanation
Tor the clubbing of the strikers.
liverpool, England The -four
mlll owners an&' bakers served notice
today that they can no longer supply
tour and bread to the pople. The
supply OF coal and grain is exhaust
'd and the closing OF the mills and
bakeries means actual starvation for
many. Butter and eggs are hard to
get.
Managers Will Resist.
London. FIngland.-At a meeting
held in London by the managers of
all railroads having terminals hero
1t was resolved that the tine had
arrived to resist the mems e%ncroach-
ments. The managers contend that
the men, by striking, will violate the
agreement arrived at after the rail
WAY troubles OF 1907. un er which
All disputes we're to be referred 10
ronclllatlon boards or an arbitrator.
'hls agreement. they say. was TO run
"h'ii l"li. The managers meeting
was unanimous that the only way to
terminate constant d@islocation of
business would be 10 take a firm
stand ana refuse all concessions TO
the men.
The Liberals Are Blamed.
tories lay the blame for the in
slamed state of feeling among the
worker to the c~hance..or of the en-
chcluer, David Lloyd-George. and
otller Liberal politicians. Those
men, according TO the Tory indict-
ment, have used language on hun
dreds of platforms that Was certain
TO undermine law and order. MIR.
LloyG-GeorSe and his friends reply
that the working population hes been
so sinned against by the nobility and
the rich that they are on the verge
of revolution.
For ears they say. I'VE have
been struggling to ameliorate pov-
crty and injustice under which the
workers live and which they have
borne with the patience of dumb
brutcs. The lords and the Tory
press have fought every reform to
the last ditch, and finally social
tumult is upon us. with strikes blaz-
ing up like heath fires"
With reference TO the pending un-
rest. it is interesting to recall that
the late King Edward predicted such
conditions as the probable result of
the rejection of the budget of 1909
by the House of Lords. The kings
ap~prehensions We're set forth in a
~cablegram October 10. 1909. and
confirmed in a dispatch sent Novem-
Der >. the same year.
Kings Counsel Rejected.
King Edwards counsel was reject
ed. the budget was thrown out and
the country was convulsed. There
followed a prolonged storm of anti.
lord and anti-Tory oratory. and
the minds of the people were drawn
away from work to politics. The,
began to devise means of accom-.
plishing reforms and lettering their
condition at all hazards. The wave
of popular excitement, intellectual
main OF politics to the domain of in.
themselves as the victims of @inveter
ate wrongs. They assert their hour!
are too long, their wages too low
and their status humiliating.
AS Il Working Man See It.
thousands are going to Canada
Australia and South Africa car
pcntor said today. My boys hav,
gone to Canada. They write me tina
real prosperity is. unknown in Eng
land. They also say that in Canad;
nobody discriminates against them
They are as good as the sons o
lawyers or doctors and companion
ship come to them. not merely from
one class. as here. but from all rank
of society. Just affew months suftic
ed to give my BOYS the spirit Of in
dependence andaa mbition that wouI,
have been denied them always.
Americans are %astOnished to fin,
all the domestic workers in Englan,
accepting tips. Our people are. gla'
to get tips, because wages are so 10,
that tips are a necessity. The injus
tice of the economic system com
pels us to descend to the plane of tn
beggar existing Oh the suffrance~
is easy to understand that this
why strikes are bursting forth ever.
where. Relief has to come. Th
workers of England must have shor,
er hours. better wages and an in
proved social position
General Railroad Strike Voted.
Liverpool. England.-At a NEE
ing last evening of executives of tn
Amalgamated Society of Railwa
Servants. the society OF L.ocomoti,
Engineers aAd44Firemen-and Gener;
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