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Show INDUSTRIAL ' WAR IS III i Troops Hurrying (o A!i the Strike Centers in England London, Aug. 17. An Industrial war has been declared and tho omployes on all the railway lines of tho United Kingdom will be called out at once. Conferences proved fruitless. Tho officers of the unions wore irremovable irremov-able in their Btand that tho omploy-orB omploy-orB had broken tho letter and violated violat-ed the spirit of the conciliation agreement. agree-ment. "Wo have come io the conclusion," they told Sydney Buxton, president of tho Board of Trade, "that the only way that will now be an effective road to peace, Is that the companies 6hall consont to meet ua." At this point Premier Asqulth intervened in-tervened and offered to appoint Immediately Im-mediately a royal commission which should investigate and report what amondmonts if any were desirable for tho conciliation plans. Mr Asqulth made the same proposition proposi-tion to the railroad managers, adding tho confident hope that tho government govern-ment might roly on both 3ldes to givo all posslblo assistance to tho proposed commissions. Tho representatives of the union refused, re-fused, while the railway managers consonted to tho plan. The loaders In tho Amalgamated Society of Railroad Rail-road Servants this evening despatched telegrams throughout the country, calling on the men to cease work. Following the failure of the strike negotiations today, tho military maneuvers havo been suspended everywhere ev-erywhere and troops aro speeding to strike centers from all directions. A whole brigade of guards, with machine ma-chine guns, has returned to Loudon. The city Is preparing for largo en-campmonts. en-campmonts. It was asserted tonight that, unless matters wore arranged in the Interim, a cessation of work in the whole transport trade of tho United Kingdom King-dom would bo ordered next Tuesday. If Ic riCflmnraH thnt olv Viiinrlrnil thousand men will obey the order. At Liverpool traffic was maintained by the statious in that city were guarded guard-ed by soldiers with fixed bayonets. The armored cruiser Antria has been sent to tho Mersey to protect ship-I ship-I ping. The trains to and from Manchester Man-chester woro generally suspended. Tho Trans-Atlantic Shipping company's com-pany's plan to coal and vlctunl their liners at American port6, round trip, but, as In tho case of the Lulsltanla which is scheduled to sail Saturday, has been unablo to obtain coal or n crew. The railway managers object to granting recognition of tho union whero it Involves dealing on their part with representatives of the men other than their own employes. nn |