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Show ENGLAND THREATENED WITH LABOR 8TRIKE London, Sept. . 17. England is threatened with tho most Berlous strike of union labor in Its history, according to union leaders here toddy. to-ddy. The troublo began with tho lockouts lock-outs ot largo numbers of workmen last week in Dublin In consequent of a strlko of transport workers because be-cause of ths employment of non-un'on laborers. Rumblings ot discontent hnvo since been hea-d throughout tho entlro labor community of tho British Brit-ish Isles, but thus far erupt ons havo occurred only In tho larger cltlea. Tho sympathetic strlko of tho Liverpool Liv-erpool dockers and of railroad workers work-ers thero and at Blrmlnghhm has ol- j ready stopped tho threo great trunk Irniluays serving tho mldlcjnd counties coun-ties of England and tho Manchester ship canal company also is contend- I Ing w th n strlko of dock laborers foi better wages. At Liverpool soven of tho great , freight depots were Idle this morning. , In Ireland, too, Mil attempts havo failed to settlo tho Dublin trouble, which was the direct cause of tho development nt Liverpool nnd Birmingham. Birm-ingham. Tho difficulty of getting P'ovlslons nto tho Irish capital has becomo so great that it Is believed tho mnrkets will have to close tholr doors. Louden has been affected only Indirectly In-directly by tho strikes on tho rail-loads rail-loads In tho midlands. Tho metro-polls metro-polls is more directly Interested fn tho threatened strlko ot motor omnibus omni-bus drivers because tho employes ro-fuso ro-fuso to nllow employes to wear union badges. Tho men bold a meeting today to-day and passed a resolution In favor of a strlko which would tlo up alt tho motor omnibuses nnd tubo lines in Londqn. Labor members of parliament d cl;iro that tho trouble in Dublin, London Lon-don and elsewhere has been' caused by tho determination ot tho employers to challenge the rights of labor to organize. |