The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-17
FURY OF ENGLISH
 STRIKERS CAUSE
 OF MUCH ANXIETY
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The fighting at Liverpool last night
 which resulted in the death of two rioters 1 has not tended thus far to improve the
 situa tion, except as it has helped to keer the peaceaby disposed outside the strike area. This enabled the police to more easily handle those who were causing trouble.
 This was particularly noticeable this morning, when the streets were quiet, the rioters having retired for a much needed le st after the nights battle. and also probably to keep out of the way of the strong forces opposed to them during daylight. The police and soldiers. how eS CT, prepared for renewal of hostilities when night fell
 Today teams were busy removing goods from the railway stations to business houses. They were unmolested Along the docks, however work was at stand still and the men showed an ugly spirit Tie continued rioting at the Mersey port was not calculated to restore confidence elsewhere and men at other ports were refusing to discharge steamers diverted from Liverpool Glasgow, for example which has just disposed of a street rail- way strike, now has a dock strike as a result of the men declining to remove a cargo of fruit from steamer sent frem Mersey.
 An Ominous Sign
 Another ominous sign was the choice by the leaders of the railway workers of Liverpool as the city from which to d. rect the threatened general strike on the railways, which was declared last night by the executives of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, the Society of Locomotive Engineers and Bremen. and tho General Railway Workers union, to become effective within 24 hours. un- less in the interim the companies ex- pressed a willingness to negotiate for settlement of grievances.
 Heretofore the railway strikes have been managed usually from London or some central points in the north. The threat to tie up all the railway lines in the United Kingdom caused more un- easiness than all the other strike move rients combined. for it was known that If the effort was successful 1t would com pietely cut off the food supplies from the greater part of the country. The gov errlment exerted every influence to avert such calamity.
 The residents of many of the poorer districts already are suffering from prolonged idleness and in some sections of London and other large cities where
 
 tribute to the support of their homes both are on strike and dependent on charities for food.
 The trade of Manchester has been completely dislocated by the strike in the transport service. Today the signal men Joined the strikers, preventing the movement of trains, SC even If the teamsters were at work tbere would be nothing for them to transport
 The striking freight handlers at Bir- mingham returned to work today.
 There appeared to be no danger of a resumption of the dock strike at Lon don. The men were slowly returning to their places. It was expected normal conditions would prevail tomorrow. Smaller and spasmodic strikes have broken out in every variety of industry throughout the country.
 Railway men at various centers today refused to handle trains conveying sol diers and police through strike areas. A report was current this afternoon that the government was likely to respond to this action by a proclama ton of martial law on all railways and replacing strikers with men from the Royal engineer army service corps.
 Passengers for Manchester were inform ed that the railway companies were un- able to guarantee them transportation further than Crews, 25 miles southwest of Manchester.
 1 David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer also asserted in the house of commons today that the government was also prepared to protect the railways and the feed supply at all cost.
 Liverpool, August 1s-A renewal oi
 rioting growing out of the strike of dock
 CTS and allied unfonists occurred tonight | in the Scotland road division of the city | The police again had to make baton | charges and the soldiers also were called
 upon. Their presence. however, was suf- | 1cient to overawe the rioters who dis | persed.
 Motor wagons conveying print paper
 to newspaper offices were attacked, street car windows were smashed and another attempt was made to release prisoners | from vans conveying them to Walton jail. Police and soldiers, however, were | present in force, the troops with bayo- | nets fixed and the crowd was not so daring as on Tuesday night and did not | compel the militia to fire. Tonight troops are bivouaced in the | streets. Their orders are not to fire over the heads of rioters In the future, as this endangers innocent parties, but, If | it becomes necessary to shoot, to pick out the apparent ring leaders of the mob.
 | Coal and provisions are being brought | into the city under military escort. | In many other of the great provincial | towns business has been partially or com pletely disocated by reason of strikes. | Some trains out of Birmingham already l have been cancelled, but as compara- | lively few of the workers there are mem- bers Of the unions, general tie-up Is not looked for.
 At Leeds a mass meeting of unionists decided tonight to act according to the instructions of the Amalgamated Asso- citation of Railway Servants, and to cease work tomorrow morning at s o'clock if the railway managers fall to comply with the ultimatum sent them.
 At Manchester, where sectional strikes have been going on for several days, supplies already are running short and through curtailment in the train service many suburbanites were unable to reach home tonight. At Swansea provisions are running low and garages have been com pelled to close because the supply of petrel is exhausted
 Sheffield, like Liverpool. is having .tme disorder and the police acting as con- | voys to teams, have had to make ire auent batoon charges in dispersing mobs When the executive members of the railway men's unions boarded train for London tonight to join tomorrow Tn the conference at the board of trade which | is endeavoring to settle the trouble, 2 hopeful feeling prevailed among them
 that general strike will be averted ] The executive officials will arrive 1T London at p. m., and go immediately to the Amalgamated societies headunar-
 ters where conference will be held a l7 o'clock with the secretaries of tht
 unions who saw MT. Buxton, president O.