The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-19

we're out and the service was completely
disorganizet.
Freight traffic is AT a standstill in the
Nottingham district and very few passen-
ger trains are running. The colliers have
intimidated men who attempted to move
traffic on the Midland line TO Mansfield.
TIED UP IN ALL QUARTERS.
At Glasgow strike pickets brought out
100 men from the North British freight
station The men demanded an increase
Of ~ cents week in their wages. reduced
hours Of work and double pay on Sundays
At Hartlepool 1000 men went out and
trafic practically stopped. At Newcastle
no trains were guaranteed to 60 beyond
York and all branch line service was
stopped.
At Liverpool, on the other hand, the
tramway service was restored.
All tram in the Monmouthshire Valley
ceased. A mob numbering several thou
sands stopped treins and threatened TO
tear up the rails IL the trains ATTEMPTED to
proceed
There was no disorder except at Breoon
on the Merthyr Tyrivil line in Wales. but
there two signal cabins were set on fire.
There was some trouble also at Rother-
ham in Yorkshire The signal cabins
were stoned. but no one is reported to
have been injured.
At Llanelly in Wales, the strikers held
the railroad line and defled the police.
This move isolated Fishguard. from which
port the big boats Of the Cunard Line sail
for the United States. Business at Fish-
guard was completely paraly zed. the non
union as we'll as the union men having
ceased work
The west Of England was completely
out of from the Midlands by the strike.
There were no bookings on the Lon
don. Tilbury and South End Railway.
The railroad men at Plymouth struck
| in the afternoon.
LONDON pIsoR0ANIZED.
London experienced this morning its
| first taste OF the national railway strike.
Railway business was disorganized and
| irritable suburbanites came into town
| for their business late and in no good
temper
The city witnessed many strange and
unfamiliar sights. The railway stations
and the approaches to the platforms
were patrolled by soldiers with fixed
bayonets and the people were held in awe.
| Most Of the train schedules were largely
curtailed. but none OF the services COM
pletely stopped. The companies prom
ised yesterday that they would main
tain some service, no matter how small.
The worst disorganization caused by
the strike was at the Marylebone station.
the terminus Of the Great Central Rail-
way. The station was without trains
from midnight with the exception Of
belated train from Manchester which
arrived four hours late. The engineer
| said he was compelled to drive the train
| with caution. as he feared the possibility
| Of a wreck.
London's suburban workers were fran
tic. On arising they found that many
| OF their regular trains had heen suspended
and they rushed pell nell to the street
cars and buses. in fact anything on
| wheels. Everything was soon filled and
it was a queer sight to sec the workers
coming into London in this manner.
The station masters at the London
suburbs had to do several duties, They
acted Gs porters. ticket collectors. bag
gagemen and everything else connected
with the stations. The fact was that
every Rand connected with the stations
with the exception Of the station master
had quit work.
There were amusing and curious scenes
at the latest London subways. the Great
Northern. Piccadilly and Bro pton; the
Baker Street and Waterloo. and the Char
ing Cross. EIston and Hampstead Rail
way tubes. The elevator hands went
out on strike and the passen gers had
to climb and descend the stairs which
are there for just such an emergency.
| The height Of the stairs is $50 feet. and
the never ending stream OF passengers.
many of them painting and pufang,
climbed the stairs and growled. The
subway trains. however. ran regularly
There were many suburbanites from
outlying districts VIII walked to work
and said tha. it was doctors orders.
The big suburban functions. it seemed.
were much worse affected than the rail-
way termini in London. Troops sent
to Acton, Southall and Ealing on the
Western Railway system also guarded
the big locomotive and car depots at
Norwood Scrubbs. Stratford on the
eastern system and Clapham junction
on the southern system were much die
located by the strike.
Most OF the companies some time ago
engaged duplicate STATS to take the places
of the old men in the event OF a strike.
These men have been living and sleepin z
in the stations, and they promptly took
the places of the regular men who went
out BY this means the companies were
enabled to get the northward mails off at
st Pancras. Kings Cross and Euston sta
tions as usual At Charing Cross and
Waterloo stations there were little evil
dences Of a strike A few conductors
, failed to report. but their places were
easily filed.
PUBLIC OPINION.
The stock markets were weak and ir-
regular, but the bears hesitated to attack
prices owing TO the possibility Of an early
settlement of the strike.
The trend of public opinion may bs
indicated by the fact that the passenger.
on an early morning Metropolitan trair
collected 81 for the men who were working
: the train. Subscription lists were openec
at the Woking station of tho London ant
: Southwestern Railway and at other point,
, for the men who remained al work