The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-02-06
CHORUS GIRLS
HIT BY STRIKE
No Trains to Take Them
Home, Hundre( Get Jobs
in Hotels q sCafes.
WALK. .oUt zExTENDED
Locomotive es ineers Quit on
Largest J enger Roads
of Sou. IN London.


of Sou. IN London.
London, Feb. 6.(A. P.)-The first
step in the direction OF the threat
ened extension Of the railroad strike
beyond the local lines in London was
| taken last night when some of the
! engineers of the Brighton and the
Southwestern roads were called out.
The union order was issued during
the evening, but passenger trains ran
until midnight. Freight service,
however, was partially suspended on
issuance of the strike order. Early
trains to the suburbs from Waterloo
station. the London terminus Of the
Southwestern, were not started this
morning as the engineers did not ap-
pear.
Late last night an official notice
! was posted at Waterloo station, stat
ing that owing to labor troubles,
train service might be considerably
| reduced or entirely suspended"
The southwestern, in addition to
serving many western suburbs of
the city, runs westward through Eng
land as far as Cornwall, while the
Brighton road serves a populous area
! in southwestern England as far west
as Portsmouth and the Isle Of Wight.
| 1t is one of the largest passenger
| roads in the southern London SUI
burbs.
Retort to Bonar Law.
The calling out of the locomotive
engineers on these lines, while full
filling a threat to call a general
strike, made Monday, is also looked
upon as a retort to the letter from
Andrew .Bonar Law. government
leader in the house of commons, in
which he refused to meet the
strikers. 1t is also q result OF the fall
ure of J. Bromley, secretary pf tho
| association Of locomotive engineers
and ffremen, tovreHc1r -yettienfent
with Sir Albert Stanley, president OF
| the board of trade and Sir Robert
Horne, minister of labor.
viii Complete Paralysis.
London, Feb. 81. N. S.)-Rail-
way traffic on the chief lines travers-
ing England may be completely par
alyzed if the engineers carry out
their threat to join the general
strike.
The government is considering the
question of supplying engineers from
threat into effect.
This is the day set for the elec-
trical workers to join the strike but
the men have been forbidden by the
government to do so, acting under
the defense of the realm act.
Hundreds of pretty chorus girls,
unable to get home because of the
car strike, have temporarily become
mattresses in prominent hotels and
restaurants, doing this work in pay
ment for board and room.
Upwards of 1000 members of the
army service corps transport work.
ers), refused to go on duty, claim
ing that civilians should do the me-
chanical repairs.
Tipping Habit Degrading.
1--WE are not going to have anarchy
and disorder in this country. any
more than we are going to have Prus-
sian militarism," said the Daily EX-
press III commenting upon the strike
situation. "The government in
tends, TO take strong action against
unreasonable and unauthorized
strikes, and will have the support OF
the whole nation which has not the
slightest intention Of being butchered
or even inconvenienced to make a
bolshevik holiday. If the engineers
strike, the nation will simply lump
them with the bolsheviki. Regard
ing the walters strike. the govern
ment should use its existing powers
to put out aliens and give the jobs
to Britons. The walters should be
paid properly so as to abolish the
degrading tipping habit"
Plunge City in Darkness.
(By Earle C. Reeves.)
London, Feb. 6.-Q. n. S.)-With
all the subways and the London dis
trict railways tied up by the strike
the railroad engineers are scheduled
to go out today, paralyzing traffic
entirely.
Despite the governments edict un-
der the defense of the realm act, for
bidding the electrical workers to
strike, there is every indication that
the men will carry out their threat
and plunge the city into darkness
tonight.
Lorries Take People to Work.
Steps have been taken by the gov
ernment TO provide both electrical
workers and railroad engineers If the
men 60 out.
Drastic measures win be taken If
necessary, it was announced. The
government released fifty thousand
lorries this morning to carry per-
sons to work.
The executives of the engineers
union in the London district. have
suspended the rebel officials"
Clsinors for Decision.
London. Feb. &c p.m.)-The
strike spread to the great Western
railways this afternoon.
Continuous conferences on the
labor situation are being held by
members of the government and
Premier Lloyd George is keeping N
touch with things by telephone from
Paris. 1t was reported that a de-
cision has been reached to fight the
bolsheviki element.
The press is clamorlng for decisive
action to put an end to the strikes.
The confusion in the streets,
brought about by the unusual num-
Der of vehicles employed to take the
place of subway trains and tram cars.
was increased today by thick fog
which turned midday into the dark
ness of night.
Bus Men TO Go Back to Work.
Ii was announced that the bus men
we're ordered IN return TO work