Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-29
LFAST RIOTERS
LOOTING STORES
s4neral Disorder in Dark
ned Streets Despite Po-
*lice Attack Strikers
COTTISH MINERS OUT
ood Controller Blames Union
Leaders for Losing Con.
I'd troll of Workers

Hf3eIfast Jan. s9-Therc was much
EdI[oting in the dark streets here last
.tUkht. Many plateglass windows in
Al ,ores along prominent streets were
K. hashed and some of their contents was
1< tolen. There was considerable wanton
"! ZONE e-throwing in the night. many win
.&Xows being broken. The police fire.
yV sntly charged with their clubs on the
u fioters.
yw London. Jan. 29.--- (By \. p)-Mners
K IN many of the Colieries in west Scot
X land have struck in sympathy with the
q men who threw down their tools at
a Clyde. This action was taken despite
their leaders protests.
III. A strike conference was convened in
4 Glasgow, Tuesday. attended by delegates
"A from all parts of Scotland, as well as
from Grimsby Rugby and London. 1t
|9twas decided TO support the strike COM
13mttee and submit proposals TO the gov
Mernment for settlement on basis of
M forty-hour week. 1t was decided also
that the strike in no case would ap-
Mproach the government or their employ
E+ers
1H 1t was announced at the meeting that
Fine number of strikers in the Clyde dis
W trct is estimated at 10000.
~ The strike ON the clyde was reported
N today TO he growing more serious. AL
III most all the big shpyards and engineer
I ing works are on the verge of closing
Edown or carrying on their work with
sn1all forces.
IA The strikers say that their object is
n to remodel trades unionism' and TO
al establish on national basis the policy
y of direct action" of which this strike
VI Is .an example.
,4 The leaders of the Glasgow strikers
IA are said to be trying to link up the
"a strike on the clyde with the strikes in
n Belfast and London. notwithstanding the
n differences in the aims of all three OF
Y these movements
M The Belfast strike committee, which
wields immense power, has taken on IT.
q self with the involuntary acquiescence
q of the civil authorities, some of the at
q tributes of an industrial soviet the
"A Belfast correspondent of the Manchester
a Guardian reports.
" The strike committee, it is added, Is
discouraging violence.
Weakness and subordination Of con-
yictions to their personal interests are
ch Irged against many of the trades
union leaders by Food Controller George
H. Roberts in an interview printed IN
the Mail today lie says this is one of
the chief causes of the present an
archy" in the British industrial world
Mr.. Roberts, veteran labor leader
and recently Minister of Labor, said:
at is time union leaders make defi-
mite and determined stand. If subordi-
n mates refuse to honor their leaders
a agreements the leaders must resign
"a Unfortunately. too many leaders are not
q free men. The modern idea is that a
i trade union official exists only to carry
"a out the behests Of any temporarily domi'
nant section. That is one of the chiei
causes of the present anarchy. and otter
preyents officials from following the die
tates Of their convictions.
There r1ust be a fight between revo
,ution and reconstruction. If younf
bloods are allowed to Slash the trades
unions organizations. We will have tc
face a long period of industrial chao!
and a long process of disillusonment
The end of this will find the workers in
fnitely worse off than they are today
Labor's demands can never be complete
". realized without efficiency of produc
ton