New-York tribune., 1919-02-06
British Cabinet
Forbids Strike
BY Electricians
Continued from page l.

Offices, have joined the ranks Of the
malcontents, while the dockers at Liv-
erpool and Glasgow announce that they
will refuse to export whiskcy because
of the insufficient supply of it in this
country. In the meantime it is patent
that the mass of the population Won
dcrs what The next fantastic develop
ment will be.
Cooks and Walters Quit
On Tuesday sympathetic strike in
thc great Chelsea generating station
stopped the District Railway. This
was the Londoners' last hope. Every
body turned pedestrian. The majority
thereby acquired terrific luncheon
appetite. Thereupon the cooks and
walters in most of the principal hotels
including the Carlton, Ritz, Clardges s,
berkeley and Waldorf, promptly
downcd dishes and joined the strike
demanding an eight-hour-da and abo-
iition of the tip pooling system.
Forty eight out o1 fifty cooks in the
Ritz Hotel struck. The remaining two
aided by four head walters, worked
vahantly to supply their patrons with
breakfast consisting of eggs, rolls
and coffee
Dlhner parties arranged for last night
by the American and Japanese ambas-
sadors were promptly cancelled.
Hotel directors and elevator attend
ants came to the rescue of the depleted d
staff at Claridgc's and managed to find
TODD for the hotel guests. The Savoy
and Berkeley, by similarly improvising
Just managed to carry on. But large
restaurants like Romano's, Scots and
the Monaco were mostly closed entire
". hose that remained open in
formed their customers that it was
necessary to return 10 the simple life,
as only the plainest fare was available
Sevcral clubs and some hotels already
nave conceded to the walters demands
and the strikers are likely to win
everywhere.
Railway Clerks May Strike
All the clerical staffs and station
masters of the railways throughout
Great Britain are likely to leave their
work at any moment now.
There is a strong feeling in London
that the government should take over
the urban transit lines and run them
with voluntary labor recruited from
soldiers.
William ]. Webb, secretary of the
electricians union, said to-day:
1--WE have taken an entirely unset
< Irjpy lo olo
mainly impressed by the fact that
100000 men and women are unem-
ployed in Great Britain as a conse-
quence of rehabilitation and the
stoppage Of war work. They are de-
termned that these people shall find
employment. There never will be in
dustral Ieace until there is state
legislation limiting the hours of the
working week. Our quarrel is with
the government The dissatisfaction
in London, in Belfast and on the Clyde
is concentrated against the government
because it is doing nothing. The hot
heads in this union are men from the
army. They thought they were return
ing to new world, but they have been
dsillusoncd"
Speaking generally, the labor unrest
is SO INCENSE that any organized body
Of men is likely to strike al any mo-
ment- with or without tangible reason.
Although the Clyde strikers are re-
turning to work conditions at Belfast
do not improve, despite Sir Edward
Carson's promise to urge shorter
hours. Three thousand miners and
! 200 school teachers struck stimuli
tancously in South Wales Tuesday.
The entire question will be the first
buSiness before the new Parliament
which met Tuesday, but confidence is
not great in its power to ameliorate
matters. The general opinion of the
public seems TO be that the only cure
for the unrest is to allow the flames
TO burn them selves out