The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-02-06
BIG STRIKE GROWS
AS LONDON WALKS
Hotel TOiers Join Walkout of the
Tube Men.
CITY'S SUBWAYS TIED UP
Engineers and Railway Clerks Threat.
en- to Qut-Traffic Paralyzed on
important Lines by Controver-
sy over Time for Lunch.

sy over Time for Lunch.
London, Feb. 1.-The seriousness of
the strike situation in London was
further increased when the hotel work
ers at meeting decided to go on
strike. About 5000 men and women
are involved
The men employed on the Hlghgate
and Hampstead SuhwayS joined the
strikers, adding to the seriousness of
the transportation situation. These
tubes carry traffic from the populous
northern and northwestern suburbs to
the west end.
1t was reported here that the Lon
don District railway also would be
tied up, and that if the worlimcn on
that line went out the operatives Mt
the power houses would join the
strike.
There have been few strikes in the
city during the last few weeks. such
MS the strike of the Thames side ship
repairers and that of the BARRIERS, but
the seriousness of the situation was
not brought directly home to London
ers until they found the entrances to
the principal tube stations closed to
them, owing to the midnight decision
of the employees not to move trains
unless a half-hour luncheon interval
were allowed them in their new eight
hour day.
Threats are made to extend the
strike If troops are brought into the
strike district
Four Tubes Tied Up.
The four tubes affected by the morn
ing wakout are the Central London
tube, which carries Il heavy traffic
west and east and brings many of the
city workers to their businesses; the
central tube artery north and south;
the city and south London, which
connects with the chief railway sta
tions and Picadilly and the Bromp-
ton semicircular system which carries
many thousands of travellers daily.
The electric system of the London,
Brighton and South Coast railway,
which serves many of the important
suburbs, such as Richmond, also was
partly stopped while other railways
with similar services were threatened
with stoppage
Fortunately, the buSses and the
street cars are still. running, but for
some time now these means of con-
veyance have been unable to cope with
the ordinary traffic because of the
shortage of busseS and ears and of
men to operate them. Thousands of
persons had to make their way as best
they could over the slippery sidewalks
to their places of business or employ
ment.
The underground railway manage
ment in a statement declared that al
though the men now were demanding
30-minute interval for meal time
within the eight-hour day, the agree
ment made when the eight-hour day
was granted provided that the eight
hours should be exclusive of meal
time. but that a special committee
should meet February - to deal with
any special points that may arise.
The next stoppage on the program
is that Of the engineers, who expect to
90 on strike Thursday for a 40-hour
week. A similar demand is engaging
the attention of "a trades unions con-
sisting of skilled and unskilled wom-
an workers and electrical trades
unions. Other unions, such as the
railway clerks, are Withholding IA
strike until the cabinet is able to con-
slider their grievances.
1000 Miners Walk Out.
Seven thousand miners in the Am
man valley, Carmarthenshire, Wales,
struck today in sympathy with the
workers In a neighboring district who
had been fined for taking time off to
attend the funeral of a fellow miner.
A general meeting Of the miners in
the anthracite region is to be held on
Thursday to consider the calling of
general strike.
The Morning Post asserts that the
chief instigators in the Glasgow and
and Simon Greenspon, both Russians.
whom it calls the "Trotzkys of elias
cow and Belfast" Some of the news
papers commend the governments pol
icy in keeping hands off.
A dispatch to the Westminster Ga
zette says that the Belfast strike COM
mittee is anxious for peace. The COM
mittee is said to have declared that
It will not be its fault if conference
with the employers is not arranged this
week.
The employers, however, the dis
patch adds, say they can do nothing
locally, as the question must be de-
cided by the national organization.
Workers Win Bombay Strike.
Bombay Feb. 1.-The great strike
which has affected SO cotton factories
during the last three weeks has been
declared off. The employers, on the
advice of the governor of Bombay,
granted 20 per cent increase in
wages and bouns of 20 rupees to the
men.
Passenger Cars Not Being Sold