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Show " (Coetinned from page 1.) ' Ingneee" to negotiate for a settlement of the-grievaaee.. , s ailway Throat .Canaan OBOaslneas , , .Heretofore the railway striken hare been managed neoally: from London or tome central point in the 'north. The threat to tic op all the railway linos io the' L'aited Kingdom eftufed more on"-rasineea on"-rasineea tkan'ell tha other strike more, , ments combined,1 for itwasikaewa that . if the effort was soreeesiul, it wOuld 1 eomnleterw eat off thnv -food supplies - from tho greater pa rf. of the country. I Tho government oxgrted . every influence influ-ence ta avert eaek.a' calamity. - Thin forenoon. Sydney .Buxton, preei-1 preei-1 dent, of tho. board of trade; conferred i With tka managers of all the railroad i tines.-and is tkeefternooulhe met the i loaders of tho employees in the hops of bringing -about n oint conference. . ' i Should tho railwar strike take place 1 ths managers hope -to maintain a per-' per-' tial service on all linos, and for months , hare been preparing, for such an even i tuality. Thar hare already mad, up time tables for a curtailed service -wits tho aid ' of - non-onion men . who .' compose com-pose sbout - three-fourths of tho workers. work-ers. Ths unions have about - K0,XK rn embers. The residents of many of the poorer districts already are suffering from prolonged idleness, and in some sections -of London aad tho other large eities where tko husbands and wires equally eoatributo to too support of their somes, both sro en strike snd dependent de-pendent on charity for food. Trads raralysod at Maoebosssr. The trade ' of '. Manchester has been completely dislocated by the striks in ths transport service. -Today the Signal Sig-nal mka joined. tho strikers, preventing the movement of trains. t The striking freight handlers at Birmingham Bir-mingham returned ' to work ' today. -. There appeared to be no danger of a reeamptioB - of tho dock strike st London. Lon-don. Smaller strikes ia various industries indus-tries 'throughout tho eountry hare saneed tha greatest suffering, as the poorer class is engaged in thoeo employments employ-ments and a few days without work mean! that thor must go hungry. The. railway men at . various centers today -noting their superiors of their determination not to handle trains employed em-ployed In convevlng soldiers and police through the strike areas. ' A report le current that the govarn ment mar reepond with a proclamation of martial law on all rallwave and re-placlna re-placlna the strikers with men from the roval ensineers army - service ' corpe. The directors of the underground rail-roade rail-roade met reoreeentaUree of their -em ployeee thle .afternoon and tt - appeared probable that their dlffereneea would be reoonelled. . - |