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Show STRIFE INJNGLIli TROOPERS FIRE ON STRIKERS AND THEN CHARGE CROWD WITH BAYONETS. Labor Revolt All Over Great Britain Probable as Result of Dockmen's Strike, Other Workers Taking Up the Fight. Liverpool. The strike situation in England is growing more serious every ev-ery hour, and a general strike which will affect the entire country seems inevitable. Early Tuesday morning there was bloodshed as a result of the strike, the troops firing upon a mob of strikers. strik-ers. Bayonet charges were also made upon the disorderly element. There had been much disorder in both Liverpool and Birkenhead throughout the previous day and the police were constantly in conflict with disorderly crowds. Several fires believed to have been of incendiary origin occurred Monday afternoon. The strike committee Monday night declared a general strike of all transport trans-port workers, including the railway men, who up to the last had refused to go out. The strike will be in effect ef-fect on all the local steamboats and the Mersey ferries. Seven thousand dockers struck at Birkenhead. During Dur-ing the day the lockout threatened by the shipowners became effective and 30,000 men were refused employment until they decide to abide by the terms of a recent agreement. There now appears little hope of averting a great railroad strike, which probably will be accompanied by a general labor revolt that will have a tremendous effect on the trade of the United Kingdom. |