Show f l ND N NOW 1 IN f u w. w r r STRIKE T I I Ii Labor Crisis in in Britain Z 1 Spreads to Greatest Situation Is I If t a City and f 3 Declared to Be Serious a i I Ii r i I By Associated Press t I COPENHAGEN F Feb b. b 3 A A sef se- se f f i r ous railway strike has broken y j in Sweden Workmen last night tout flout I stopped work o on nineteen different ar It lines lints By Associated Press J. J ONDON Feb B eh 3 The 3 The strike fW L Lr LJ f fever ver which has become epidemic in the United Kingdom oj spread spread t to London today and the he I present resent week promises to be a critical one industrially for tor the metropolis The seriousness of ot the situation was brought directly home r. r to Londoners this morning when they r found the entrances to the principal 7 tube stations closed owing to the UtI J r- r tt midnight decision of ot the not notto r F to move trains today unless a half half- hour luncheon Interval were allowed t them In their new hour eight-hour day 1 The elec electric system of ot the London I Brighton South Coast railway i which h serves many of ot the important I suburbs also was partly stopped while other railways with similar services cervices were threatened with stop stop- g page stop stop-I Fortunately the buses and the 2 streetcars were still running but for fort t some time now these means of conveyance conveyance conveyance con con- have been unable to cope with the ordinary traffic because of the shortage ot of bus buses s and cars and M of ot men to operate them The result I r was that thousands of persons today J rv had to make their way as best they the I j i could over the slippery sidewalks to toi tor i t r their places of ot business or employ employ- ment I HOTELS MENACED II Workers in the large hotels will hold holda holda I a a a meeting today to decide whether after after after aft- aft er dinner tonight they shall strike inI inan in an effort to enforce demands for shorter short- short I I. I er hours better wages and Improved i conditions I I. I f. f g The The next stoppage on the prOgram Is I w that of It the engineers who o expect to toI toi tor I i strike Thursday for tor fora r go on a hour forty l Jj 9 o iJ Jt week A similar demand is engaging i 3 the attention of t twenty-four twenty trades i J r u jj unions consisting of ot skilled skillet and unskilled un- un ani i skilled women workers and electrical 1 trades unions Other unions such a as II a the railway clerks are withholding a aj j 2 strike until the cabinet is able to consider consider con- con sider slier their grievances 1 I The t fact ct that Premier Lloyd George remains In Paris leads to the It s Jv sion sidn sl n that the cabinet members do not consider the situation as serious as it itI 1 I looks on its face tace UNEASINESS IN BELFAST I The presence of ot large bodies of I troops in Glasgow is believed to inI inI inV in- in I I V IS sure a continuance e of ot the present state of order there but at Belfast the sec sec- Sf g ond and w week el of the strike begins with Increased increased increased In- In creased uneasiness although there are I I y w K U. no signs of any disposition on the part if 2 S of the m men n to resort to further vb- vb lence i i For eight days Belfast has been usI usIng us- us I Ing candles for for- lighting and most of I ri the public services have have- been at a as s complete standstill The curtailment h Z- Z of ot the fuel tuel supply Is Js causing considerable consid- consid I v i erable rable suffering and an indefinite proT pro- pro T 2 of these conditions Is considered consid- consid t l J 3 y ered Impossible y l I GENERAL MINE STRIKE I I A general meeting of the miners in II the anthracite region Is to be held on Thursday to consider the calling of a 5 general strike |