Show 1 r 7 I d j iMAR MARTIAL TIA LAW TO HALT HAL i T RioTS r I T I n I e I I A IN i l r fAU cI c- c I 1 If io 5 I i i in ing ing Worse Worse- I Ja Law rM May Coie Hint A h J i I t l. l l i es l I By Associated Associated- 1 vv f GLASGOW Jan 31 31 Sev ral raI persons persons were were injured re l' l Here today when the police po i e charged a harg cb crowd I of strikers with with b lon The mounted police were r and a number of arre arrests ts 1 were made I With a to stopping stopping- street streetcar car traffic the strikers cars cars this this' afternoon and and twelve I cars were cars were thrown from the tracks and nd smashed in the s sale le market r rI I Other cars were attacked in i i parts cf of the city At least H shop was looted By Associated Press T ON ONDON DON Jan 31 There There w t. t JL L LONDON 1 still no lIO 10 prospect tod today of I betterment in ll the labor labo I in ill the United Kingdom If l t K thin the situation both tk Glasgow and Belfast t has become m mira re j I serious p particularly in Belfast The Tha J strike suile movement is spreading to the Ule large industrial establishments and and andI there are are undoubtedly are undo signs of oC coning comIng comIng com com- I Ing disorders disorder which may entail the proclamation mation of martial mart law Th 11 T was vas the the subject subject for Cot discus discus- sion at a special meeting oZ of Jho cabinet yesterday estel a The board F tt fr trade hade also is active in i an effort 1 to I b bring a about out but ut 1 this time lime without success st INTERFERENCE DANGEROUS 1 S I The Tle yew v ew taen b by the Uie gov is that any a y g v m interfere O e. e I now would be unwise i dangerous The strike movements SUB rl local and anti against the advice ice of ot i respective trade u Moreo there Is infinite is-infinite variety in the arioul I demands advanced Nl in th the different localities It 11 appears appealS to l be Lie g believed that th the absence ot pay py y for the ther men will UI soon bring about the lie coll ps of the lie mo POLITICAL MOTIVES f It is it tu considered d t that fa strikes are largely promoted b I few Cew agitators agitators' with 1111 political lIe oe Het c the government is determined determined- d to limit Its action o the pr prevention prevention- ven l n I of intimidation and nd the maintenance of orders order Thus far Car the railways have ha not not been affected The board of ot has' has decided to grant an eight hour day to the railway men from ar ary 1 but here again there Is Is' dIsI dissatisfaction dissatisfaction dis dIs- dis- dis I satisfaction among the railway emr n m plo es concerning the 1110 the question o ot I I meal times being Included in the th hour eight l' l period which may leaF I to difficulties i j LABORERS LABORERS- RULE CITY f l' l Telegrams from Belfast depict a a situation there which seems akin to that which recently obtained in Ge Ger Ger German i iman man cities under revolutionary rule The governing power has be ben n usurped says says' a Belfast d Tt f the Mall Mail by the strike committee and the city is governed from th he humble Artisans' Artisans hall J There is no outstanding person Jerson I allt allty sa says th the dispatch but there i ia Is Isa Isa a committee capable commIttee of trades union I leaders 1 most st of ot whom are moderate Continued on page 10 l STRIKES IN BRITAIN Continued from page 1 and restrained Nobody can do anythIng anything anything any any- thing unless he comes cap in hand to this committee Even the police I are helpless and the chief of or police I has asked the strike leaders to co cooperate cooperate cooperate co- co operate with the constables in preventing preventing pre- pre i venting disorders and lawlessness When hen strikers go to a hotel to cut cutI cutoff I off electric current police pollee accompany I I them The postmaster has thanked I the strike committee for tor allowing I the postoffice to use electricity The committee has prescribed a aI I limited amount of work in certain industries InI in- in j I particularly those involved I In feeding and warming the people I Otherwise there is no industrial or orI I commercial activity whatever Lest the strikers become bored the comI committee com- com I has drawn up a program of ot j I entertainments to replace the closed I theatres and moving picture houses The lack of ot newspapers has been met I by bv the publication of ot a strike paper at a commandeered plant Many discharged soldiers and II sailors are cooperating with the I strikers striker I Jt It It is reported that shipyard ard men menI and engineers at Londonderry are I arranging to 10 follow Collo- the example of the Belfast strikers |