Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-19

| day. The managers had a prolonged
meeting with members of the Board of
Trade but as far as could be learned
| the railroad companies declined to
bulge from their stand of making no
further concessions beyond submitting
| the dispute to the royal commission
| suggested by the government.
| The next step rests with the strike
| committee, which was in session Though
out the day apparently Determines not to
yield until the companies recognized the
unions. The chief cities of England are
armed camps. The stations, workshops,
signal ports. tunnels and bridges are
guarded by soldiers. Clerks have been
pressed into service TO aid the non-strik-
ers in moving the trains. Despite the
efforts of the companies, freight tranc is
demoralized and the shortage of food sup
plies threatens a famine at some points.
There has been rioting at Birmingham,
Derby, Sheffield and at Llanelly, Wales.
Attacks have been made on the signal
towers at some places, but usually the
violence has been confined to attempts to
| interrupt the movement of food and fuel
supplies.
The most serious situation probably as
at Liverpool. The city was quiet today
but the silence was ominous, for the
feeling among the strikers and their
friends Is bitter.
The strike at the electric power sta
tions is a serious feature which threatens
to plunge the city in darkness tonight as
well as to tie up the street railway sys-
TENS. Non-union men accomplished
partial service at the power stations to-
day
Shipping is demoralized and hun
dreds of Americans with their eyes
turned wistfully toward home are in
sad plight. This afternoon the
Cunard Steamship Co. notified the
passengers booked for the steamers
Caronia and Lusitania at Liverpool
that there was not the slightest
chance of the vessels sailing al pres
ent and that probably they would
| not be able to get away before the
middle of next week. The Carcnia Is
lying in the stream coaled and with
her cargo aboard but without a crew.
The Lusitania has no coal although
the coal barges are lying alongside.
The Caronia has booked $50 first class
passengers and the Lusitania $50.
These generally are weil-to-do per-
sons who are accepting the situation
quietly.
Some have gone to the country to
spend an extra vacation. Others are
proceeding to the continent with the
hope of sailing from a continental
port. To the second class passengers
the matter is more serious and al
ready the American embassy and
consulates and American societies are
receiving appeals for assistance from
those who were supplied with money
sufficient only to pay their passage
i home.
| The government views the industrial
war as so grave that Parliament did
not adjourn as had been expected to-
day. but will continue prepared to
adopt any emergency legislation the
moment it is necessary
| IT. a few isolated cases engineers
abandoned their trains on the tracks
and signal men left their boxes I'm
protected, resulting in narrow es-
capes from collision.
Mobs stopped the trains in Mon
mouthshire and threatened to tear up
the rails if the trains were moved.
I The battleship Warrior, arrived at
Douglas. Isle of Man. this afternoon,
TO provision the hungry islanders.
whose regular communications with
Liverpool have been cut off.
Reports from Wales say that some
20.0G0 or 10000 additional golfers will
be idle tomorrow.
Thousands of holiday makers are
stranded at seaside and country re-
sorts without money and unable 10
obtain transportation home.