New Britain herald., 1920-10-18
FIRST DISORDERS
 THIS AFTERNOON
Several Injured in White
 hall When Unemployed { Try to Break Through ' Gordon of Police.

London. Oct. IS.-Persistent reports that efforts ta bring about settle nncnt of the coal miners strike arc being made partially relieved the epirit of anxious uncertainty with which tho British nation began work today.
 wants Mediation
 John Robert CIynes. former food controller. and one of the most mod crate of the labor leaders, has eN pressed confidence q settlement was possible within a week.n both sldes 1. could be brought together to calmly df.cuas the merits of the controversy. 1Ie advocates as a basis of agreement inc granting to the miners of half their dcutands and submission of the rer,nifFNer to m impartial tribunal. J N. Thomas general secretary of the national union Of railway men has .alao made moderate statements and i. both these men are relied upon to do their utmost to shorten the strike.
 Newspapers contrast tho attitude ot sfyncs and Thomas with that of C. T: t.rnmp, president of the nationai sfion Of rntiwuymcn who has gwen srtanffcant warning to members ot that nnIon of .'thc serious situation which Sslli he created If the miners nre de- tseated." They also call attention to an sffperancc by another prominent ilboritc. Edwin Revin secretary or mo .gort workers union who in speech sestnrday acruscd tho government ot s~ having engineered the strike and rhsrsod tt with double dealing. .t Money value Drops
 sone effect of the coal strike upon financial London has been the weak - rninE of tho pound sterling which has dropped to ss.44 on buying orders to cover actual and prospective coal shipments from tho United States to ! Europe.
 The transport workers and the rah- Maymcn. were evidently making time today before deciding whether they wantd lend their support to the strik- Ing coal workers.
 Talk of mediation was still rife and II VI hile thcrc were no tangible develop mentN along this limo. the railroad employees and the transport men ap- I peared to Ire inclined not to take pre- ripitate action pending possible pro- rpsnis.
 II .sThe country awaited anxiously q re- port from the meeting held thts morn Ing of tho council of transport work cfs which includes more than 70 { unions. covering the dockers. the bus and tram workers, the commercial road transport men and the coal trim M rtors Ut tho ports. Tho council. how sSver aftcr n private meeting adjourn frd until tomorrow without announc- inw Us policy
 Disorders This Afternoon Disorders occurred in Whitehall thi.s Afternoon. in connection with the coal miners strike. during demonstra- ton of unemployed men who had sent N n delegate to Premier Lloyd George in Downing street Scvcsnl persons were sniured in attempts e break through n. police cordon and others were hurt when some stone work from a win dow in the treasury building fcu.
 The dcputatton to the premier con sisted of 15 heads of London bureaus nRktnR relief for tho unemployed Tho disorders still were tn progress when the deputation emerged from fhc premicr's official residence nt No 1o Downing street and tried to quiet fhe crowd.
 Red I1ng Waves.
 Al the same time q small party oi u emdnstratura went to the nctghbor-
 pg Trafalgar Square. set up rcd ifnR and sang the "InternRtionale' nnd cheersd Lenine and Trotzky. Nc
 raublo developed here. however. tho
 ,ortce not interfering.
 rho police finally dispersed tho rioters.
 Tn connection with tho sending oi he dsputation to the premier's resi-.
 hence q parade of 1000 of tho un. ployed had been planned to march tc loowning street as demonstration Nf ftsr tho disorders had subsided the 4nurade reformed and continued to. wards Trafalgar Square tn an orderly manner. escorted by the police.
 Fifty injured persons were River eatment when tho trouble ended Twenty of these were sent to hos.