Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-17

which Sn0ulu lnVeStlBatc anu fopOtt
lie for the conciliation plan.
The cruiser anchored of Princess
landing and trained her guns on the
city.
Provisions which arrived by rive and
rail were unloaded under the protec-
tion of troops and the guns OF the
cruiser
Fully 150 vessels, loaded with goods.
have been held up because of the strike.
and much damage has been done TO the
docks and shipping by the rioters.
Later two other warships were dis
patched to Liverpool
Early today 5000 troops with ma
chine guns arrived IN London TO safe
guard the property in evcnt of the
general strike today.
The government has committed itself
flstly to the proposition that the trans
portation facilities of England must be
kept open at any cost.
Every soldier In the Aldershot COM
mand, mum berng $4,000. has been
placed under orders for duty.
To Use hall and Cartridge.
Only the cavalry and infantry were
under orders before, but today the
Royal Engineers, the Army Service
Corps and the Field and Garrison Ar
tillery were warned to have every man
in their ranks ready to move on
moments notice.
All the soldiers will be armed with
rifles and ball ammunition. They VIII
be stationed along the railway lines
north and south of London, while the
cavalry will be employed at stations
and also will patrol the lines SO as to
be able to get quickly to any point of
danger The trains will be worked by
flag signals
The time limit of twenty four hours
within which the railway men de-
manded that their employers agrse 70
consider their grievances expired at
o'clock this morning, but the threat
ened general strike on the railroads OF
the United Kingdom failed to ma
terialize Instead, representatives OF
the four railway societies involved went
into conference with the Board Of
Trade ~
No formal orders were given the
union men by their leaders. bus ap-
parently 1t was generally understood
that "A truce would be observed while
negotiations with the Eoard of Trade
continued. IS
Throw Down Gauntlet. Ak
Officials of the railway mems sooie-
ties arrived in London from Liverpool
early today and Immediately met at
the offices of the Amalgamated Society
of Railway Servants, where they threw
down the gauntlet to their employers
by adopting the following resolutions:
This joint committee hereby ex-
presses it's determination not to settle
the present dispute unless the lock-
out imposed up fellow workers be-
cause of their support of the railway
men in Liverpool and elsewhere is re-
moved"
Later the union officials, numbering
forty, met with the Board of Trade
officials.
The transatlar. shipping companias
plan to coal and victual their liners
at American ports for the round trip
The Lusitania, which is scheduled %
sail Saturday. has been unable to OBJ
tain Il crew or coal.
Tom Mann, the strike leader, sum-
married. the mems demands as fol-
lows: "A general increase in wages OF
fifty cents a week, a work week Ok
ffty-four hours, and the recognition II
the unions
The railway managers strongly OBJ
iect to granting this recognition whers
it involves dealing on their part with
representatives of the men other than
their own employees.
100000 RaIlrOnders Involved.
While the total number of men em-
ployed on the twenty principal
railroads is 100000 a majority of the
skilled laborers are union men. In the
event of strike the leaders hope to
obtain the support of the unions Of
railway clerks and railway teleg-
raphers
Already tremendous Inconvenience
has been caused TO hundreds of Amer
leans who should now be on the water
homeward bound, but who are ma
rooned here either through the cam
ceiling of liners sailings or their in
definite postponement.
The first vessel to be affected was
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