at its
disposal
with the
avoyged
inten-
tion of fighting toa bitter
finish a coun-
try-wide
s*rike of
railwaymen, which
was due
to begin
at midnight,
as a
re-
sult of the refusal of the National Union
of Railwaymen
to
accept
the Govern-
ment’s
proposa's
regarding the fixing
of a permanent
rate of wages
as a basis
for future negotiations.
From an author-
itative
source
it
was
learned
to-night
that the
Govt. intends.
to
use
its
every
resource
to combat
what
was character-
ized
as
a
‘‘heinous
offence’’ and
‘‘a
strike
against
the life of the
communi-
tv’’." Already preparations
have
been
made
to continue
the
transport
of neces-
sities' By
motor
cars.
The
War
Office
has
suspended
all leave
of absence
and
future
demobilization
of the
mijlitary
forces,
and
the
Food
Ministry
has
re-
vived
virtually
all
the
war measures
regaiding
the
rationing
of
food.
The
decision
of
the
National
Union
of
railwaymen
to
strike
came
at the
final
conference
this
morning
between
_the
Union
leaders
and
the Cabinet,
which
had
‘resulted
ir
‘a
deadlock..
The, on-
ly
official programme
since
then
Hhas
been
a
brief
statément
that
negotia-
tions-had failed; and that the strike
would
take
place.
Mr. Thomas,
on
behalf
of
the railwaymen,
issued
a short statement,
expressing
deep regret over the outcome,
and
declaring
that disorders™
nd
the
destruction
of*property,
,'W_mzl_?_[‘not
be
countenanced
by the Union. ''Late today
the
Cabinet met to-consider
the strike,
and it is significant ofthe gravity of
the
situation
that
Field
Marshal Haig
and
General
Fielding,
Military Commander
of
the London distriet,
were
summoned
for
a
consultation.
The
Minister
of
Labour,
Sir Robert
Horne, tonight
said
that the attitude of .the
men.
left no hope
that they would.be
moved by any further
discussior.
It is uiderstood
. that
Mr.
Lloyd-George
offered
to
continue
the
negotiatioqs
with the Union
men
on
a
basis
tendipg
toward
eompromise,
but
; that
she
men
flatly refused
toconsider
this.
Sir
Robert Horne in an interview
tonight on the
railwaystrike saia,
*‘this
marks
the gravest industrial
crisis which
has
confronted
this
country®
for
many
years,
and
it
occurs at a.time when
its
consequences
can
be
mest
fruitful for
injury.
The country.is
10t only beginning
to struggle
toward
the renabilitation
of
the industries;
and the effect of this stop-
page
cannot
be otherwise than‘digastrous,
more
remarkable
than» anyt
"
eise
about thestrike is
its extraérding@ey
pre-
cipitancy
and
the apparert complete
dis-
regard of the public, it is concerned
with
the question of wages, yet the change
in
wages which the railwaymen
fear,
can-
not by any possibility take place
before
December: +3lst.,, ‘and
not
even
then,
unless
conditions
are
much
altered
from
what anybody anticipatés’,
London,
Sept.
27th.
Despatches
from
the provinces
arriving
in “London
since
midnight, indicate
that
the-call for
the
S TR
X AVILS.
railway strike has; been -generally
res-
|
ponded to,*althé® *h in, some.
centres,
1
with
reluctance.,
.
NewYork, Sept.! 26th.—Foreign
ex-
|
change
strengthened
percertibly
foday
on annouricén&ent-?rom
‘Washington
ofea
|
plan to fund the ipterest
on the
debt
of
|
the
Allied
European
nations.
Serhng,
[
or bills on
London
rose
almost
three
|
cents
to the pound, francs
and
lires also
|
rallying although
more moderately.
Re-
|
mittances
to Austriag and, Germany
wer
|
less favourably
influenced,
and rates.
on
_|
Holland and the' Scandinavian
countries
|
were little
changed.
:
~ Berlin, Sept..2sth—The
Schwerin
Pro-
|
perty
Tax Bureau
has
confiscated
the
|
property
and fortupe
of
Anthony
Fok-
|
ker,
the well-known
builder of airplanes,
|
becanse
Fokker
failed
to
deposit
four-
|
teen
millio? marks
security
demanded
|
of him
by
the
authorities
as
a
guaran-
|
tee that he
was not ‘dodging his taxes.
|
‘Paris, Sept.
26th—The terms
of peace
|
offered
Bulgaria are. consilered
by
the
Bulgarian
delegation
as
very
vigorous,
|
and
some of them completely unaccept-
|
able,
according
to
a
statement
prepar-
ed
by M. Theodoroff,
head.of
the
Bul-
|
garian
mission, pfior to leaving
Paris,
|
and which has just ‘been made
public.
.
London,
Sept.”
26#h—Strong
pickets
of
Unionists
had been
posted
as
early
as
|
ten’ o’clock
‘in thé 'vicinity
of all
the
stations.
from
which
trafic
proceeds
from London northward,
and
also
be-
|
fore
the
great
freight
yards
railway-
men{ coming
witht their iunch-baskets
to go
on the “midnight shif:,
were stop-
|
ped
-and gathered
in groups
around
the
|
pigkets.
Everywhere perfect
order
pre-
vailed.
The
menstill
on
duty
carried
out their
work with seemingly
extraor- ' |
‘dinary
energy.
At the
great
ncrthern
'station
of King’s
Cross,
the
trains
for
|
|
Edinburgh
departed
exactly on schedule
time.
All of
them were
crowded
with
passengers.
At
St.
Pancras
and
Eus-
ton
statigmgeverything
was
quiet:
The
midland '%‘gin' for
Sheffield left
just be-
fore midnight, half filled with passengers.
At
the horth-western
station the
clerks
|
refused
to
sell
tickets
after
10 o’clock
|
except
for
the
suburbs.
On the
tubes
|
the employees
disefissed
-the strike,
and
|
it was evident that:some
ofthem
intend-
ed to go out.
. The Sé¢otch
Express
which |
was due to leave. Buston
station
at mid-
|
night,
was
.crowded
with
passengers,
|
including soldiers gnd
mails, but the trip
|
was cancelled
at
the last
moment,
the
@
signal
men having quit.
Qut going traffic
from
Paddington
station
ceased
at 9.30
|
o’clock.
South-bound
trains
left- Edin-
]
burgh on
time,
but the
officials
in the
|
Scotch city refusedto
guarantee
ipe ar-
|
rival of passengers..
.The Railway Clerks’.
|
Union
has
decided :not
to
join in
the
|
strike,
and to -maintain strict neutrality,
{
according
to the *'Evening
Standard”.
|
The
Govt.
during
the econierence
with
|
the Railway:Union
deaders
made
ap offer
:for the continuation of the present
wages
- throughout,
this year and-
into next
year
until cost
of food,
now reckoned
at
115
per
cent
above
the
pre-war
scale,
had
fallen to 110%
above
the pre-war
level,
-
and remained
there
or
below
that
point
fora three
months’ period.
Owing
to
the uncompromising
attitude of the
men,
however,
the ‘‘Standard’’ says,
ap
agree-
ment was
found
to be
impossible.
The
King,
who
is
at
Ralmoral
Castle,
has
been
constantly
informed
by special wire
of the developments
in the
situation.
It
is expected
that His Majesty
will
cancel
the remainder
of his holiday
and
return,
to. London.
NEwW
YORK. Sept.
26th
1919,
Flour, Blended Clear
St. Lawrence
I-rand
pr.
brl. $10.50.
Meal, Kilndried per
100 bs $4.10
New
Season’s
Pork per brl. $50.00
Heavy Mess
Pork
per bbl.
$51.00
Sugar---Crystals
(Confirmed by Brokers)
per
100 lbs.
$7.28.
.
Molasses 89” test
pr 100 Ibs. no quotation.
Cotton, Middling Upland,
at Liverpool per
Ih. 19 80-1004.
xchange,
New
York
and
London,
60
-
days’ sight $4.20
Exchange
New Yorkand
London,
sight
:
e
T
$4.24
-«
-
‘LONDON, Sept.
26th }919.
Sugar-Demerara
Crystals
duty.paid price.
fixed by the Royal Commission
per cwts
e
~
87s.
9d.
191s,:0d:
Muscovado,
89°/- basis, floating rexrms
in
bond, Ditto duty paid.
555. 6d.-78 s. 6d.
German
Beet 88°/¢ f.o.b.
no further sales
~
during
the
war
o
Java 96°/ Gibraltaror
Channel for Orders
'
floating terms,
no quotations.
;
Demerara
Rum, per gal. nominal.
:
Trinidad
Cocoa,
Good
Middling Red
per
cwt.
1255.
6d.
1275. 6d.
.
Cotton, Medium Fine Sea
Island,
at Liv
'
erpool nominal per Ib..
»
:
Bank
of England
rate of . Djscount
per
cent. .
5
8
Consols
£O4
o
Three per cent rentes
in Paris
Fes.
60.95
All prices
subject
to correction.
NOPTHERN
Assurance Company
Limited
OF
LONDON
GEO.L MA__KOE
Agent for Fé‘.éder@kst%, ’s
-Distri=
M. K. ARMSTRONG.
Agent for
Christiansted’s
District
Policies
are not subject
to
average.