Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-29
FACTIONS REFUSE
TO GET TOGETHER.
AND END TROUBLE
One Million Railway Men
Idle and Others Will
Join Today.
C0LLIERIES AND FACTORIES
CLOSE, ADDING MORE lDLERS
Country Stands Aghast at Ex-
tent of Generalization That
Followed Breach.
FACE UNGER AND COLD
Government Considers Plan to Es-
tablish Motor Transport System
TO Relieve Acute Situation.
C0LLIERIES AND FACTORIES
CLOSE, ADDING MORE lDLERS
FACE HUNGER AND COLI
Government Considers Plan to Es-
tablish Motor Transport System
TO Relieve Acute Situation.
BY l.. II. MURDocH

|oNI'cN, sept 2S.-lnduStrial stag
naticn prevails throughout the United
Kingdom today
All hopes for settlement are blast
ed by the obstinate refusal both OF
the workers and the government to get
to ge.hcr. Every attempt at conci,ia-
ti"n-and there have been many in the
laHs twenty-four hours-have failed
The 100000 railway men now idle
are oound to draw other hundreds of
thousfnds OF workers into the mael-
strom beginning tomorrow.
The great industrial centers of
Leeds. Manchester. Birmingham and
Glasgow are paralyzed through the in
abilit& TO supply the workers materia.
| with which to work.
Collieries and factories already are
| closing all over the land, thrownnS
out hundreds OF thousands of miners
and other workers.
| extent or the demoralization that fol-
loved the breach between the govern
ment and labor. -
London Nearly DesoIatcd.
London, as we'll as other great Brit
ish cities, are nearly isolated from the
rest of the country
;, oGGasionaliy e "a; ma iorries or ono of the
SUPPLY hospitals) filter through, out
tthey seem almost like a mockery in
the terrible industrial paralysis.
| The government, powerless to act
mace no serious attempt to move the
trains today.
In sight, the bulk of the +5.000.O00 men,
women and children popuIating Britain
| face hunger and cold.
The only way this catastrope can be
aVerted is for the government 10 es-
taonsh at once hastily improvised
transport scheme on large scale. But
tary would have to be enlisted. and
that possibility is the nightmare
is no telling to what lengths embattIed
labor will go TO prevent the govern
ment from using soldiers to act
Feeling PanEs of Hunger.
London and other cities already are
feeling the pangs of hunger-the hun
ger OF war.timc no eggs. no sugar and
only inorsels OF meat and bread
of hs hhronany Ion wii the re
lines so familiar in the dark days of
the war.
able on this, the first day after the
beginning of the gigantic tie-up, and
so is the lack OF fuel.
ing having been curtailed to the ut
most minimum necessary.
The e,,dde effect On on the population. too,
OF London's unsuspecting millions have
0vsrnght 81 turned ,hn r,s, to gloom The full
struggle. which may. decide far more
than the future status of the govern
Unofficially it is announced that Par
lament will be summoned this week
in the event no settlement is forth
coming.
Strike Fund of S7.00O.OOO.
Labor estimates are that the railway
men have $7.OO0,0O0 strike fund and
can hold out three weeks. whercupon
either already thrown out of their jobs
or bound to he thrown out because Of
the transportation tie-up have no such
resources except their individual saw
But three weeks OF the present pa
ralysis would mean disaster. the eX
ger the Imagination.
The authorities .concedc that even IL
aas bow Iot TO srtsh srf It M Tsrike
Hundreds of Americans stranded in
London and other cities are financially
seeking transportation TO the sea-
| board.
Fabulous sums arc offered by them
foT 6nS conveyanes;S e;d to o get there: ,,o
OF an automobile 10 get from London
to Plymouth TO catch a boat there.
Another offered the same. but it was
| refused, as the government has cam
celed tho petrol supply.
American Food Tic-Up.
| Thsuands of tons of American food
will be tied up on the docks, with no
| The Adriatic is due tomorrow at
Southampton. which means that hun
| dreds more Americans will be strand
| ed, unless the company organizes Il
motor service. which is doubtful, owing
to the communicating OF the petrol
| supply.
The Noordam, sailing for America
| today, was delayed for hours. but the
passengers had been warned. and rs
per cent were on the dock before the
strike started.
James Henry Thomas. secretary OF
the Railway Mems Union, dealt n shock
to the public with his warning thar
"troublc is brewing which may lead
to bloodshed." The public has been
disinclined to believe in the magnitude
OF the tie-up and such words from
Thomas. who is an ultraconservative
| leader. came as rude awakening
No city in the world took more eXer-
else today than London. Hundreds OF
thousands walked many miles 1t will
be worse tomorrow. for the buses and
tramways are likely to go out also,
leaving only meager taxicab SER
vice at the disposal OF the people, and
taxi drivers are famous for not over
| looking any bcts--thc rates Will be
tripled and uuadrupled tomorrow. so
| that only the well-to-do can afford
that luxury. dear enough in normal
| times.
II the strike proves anything it is
l ICON tinue1 on Second JaUc1