Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-07-27
Damage Amounting to ST.
100000 is OOnel Rioting
Following Mayors Refusal
to Permit Memorial Service,
SAVAGE ATTACKS BY
TONNES FREQUENT
Disturbances Also Occur in
Various Parts of Ireland
As Well As in English
Towns,
BY James NJ. Tuohy.
(Staff Correspondent of the Albuqucr-
que journal and New York WORLDLY
%,
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
inc Co
(The New York WorldD
Special Cable DispatChD

London, July 26.--Damage amount
ing to more than $1,300,000 was
done on Peace day at Luton, bedford
shire. center of the English straw hat
industry, because discharged and de
modified soldiers were refused per.
mission to hold memorial services for
their dead comrades in the local pub
lie park.
This refusal really merely furnished
occasion for riot, which had been
brewing for some time, owing to unre-
dressed grievances of the soldiers.
The town hall was burned to the
ground, all the municipal documents
were destroyed, and forty policemen
and sixteen firemen were injured by
the mob.
Clash With Sim Feincrs.
In Cork and Limerick, in isolated
disturbances between soldiers and
Sim Feiners, the police charged with
their clubs and ultimately used their
rifles. One policeman got shot in
the leg. The men arrested will be
tried by court-martial and will re-
ceive heavy sentences No arrest has
been made in Luton, and the mayor
has fled.
In Coventry Warwckshire, the
great motor industry city. the mob
smashed plate glass windows whole
sale and looted boot and other shops,
These are mere local manifestations
of general and menacing unrest. The
strike Of the miners to show their dis
content with u wage increase of only
six shillings a ton furnishes a formid-
l., 10 Ia Of la liY,rr
Mines have stopped operations and are
becoming flooded and sailors have
been sent from the fleet to pump them
our.
Situation Is Critical
The mining situation is regarded as
critical, for the miners claim solidari-
ty with the soldiers and sailors. If that
is the case, a vista is opening for new
and greater trouble than the govern
ment has yet had to face.
Industrial work throughout York
shire Is becoming steadily paralyzed.
There are strikes of one kind or an
other in most Of the industrial dis
tricts, At Greenock, near Glasgow. the
transport workers, having been re-
fused pay for Peace day, decided not
to work on any future Saturday, thus
tying up the transport business.
Nearly 10000 Derbyshire miners are
idle. Eighty-five mines have shut
down in the midlands and the north.
1t is feared mines all over Great
Britain will strike as a protest
against the use of sailors for pump
ing the mines. Altogether the situa-
ton has reused the most profound
fears and misgivinEs in the house of
commons. The premier has been
unable to say anything to dispel this
feeling.
Business Is Alarmed.
British business men view with the
utmost concern the action of the min
ers in crippling the coal output at this
juhcture, which, they say will give
America, now the greatest competitor
for world markets, an enormous ad
vantage, High officials Of the Fedora
ton of British Industries which is a
body comprised of more than 10000
honserns in Great Britain, said to the
World correspondent:
''All our trade plans are we'll mo-
bilized, but these plans are worth lit
tie if the British workman does not
produce goods to fill the orders re-
ceived, BY crippling our coal output
we not only lose one of our greatest
export commodities. but many indus
tries throughout the country will be
thrown into idleness."
1t is asserted that although some
of the plants could be operated with
oil instead of coal, this would mean a
long delay at a time when it is we'll
known here that America is mobiliZ-
ing for big business throughout the
world" In other quarters it is assert
ed that only if American coal was
dumped into Newcastle in large guam
titles would it be realized by miners
how seriously they are striking at the
welfare of the whole community
Sheffield Hard Hit.
The coal situation i'll the Sheffield
district is daily becoming much more
serious. Extensive inquiries made to-
day show that unless fresh stocks of
coal are to hand before the end of
the week, and there seems to be little
hope Of this. at least $4,000 workmen
will be thrown out of employment In
the steel, iron and allied trades There
are between 10000 and 5000 men
out already, and the numbers increase
hourly
John Brown & Co. of the Atlas
WORKS nave hdu TO suspend large
number of men. and other firms have
been obliged to discontinue depart
ments.
1--WE can manage with strict econo-
my until the end of the week" said
the managing director of one of the
largest armament firms, employing
of men, "and then we shall
have practically to shut down"
The same story was told at Vicker's
Cammells Firth's, Hadfield's. Bes-
semer's and at all the great works of
Disaster Is Forecast.
All the morning newspapers en-
phasize the gravity of the coal situa-
ton Disaster is ahead If these devel- |
opments continue. the Daily Tele-
graph says 1t urges all who bear the
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