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Show i SEVERAL INJURED IN COAL STRIKE DISORDERS f :?j c? efb A c9 A ' A A jl H jl f PUBLIC BEGINS I TO EXPERIENCE I WHLKOliT EFFECT I Cold Snap Comes Just as Fuel Restrictions Are Placed in Effect I EFFORTS AT SETTLEMENT f CAUSE SOME COMFOR'I But Rumors of Sympathetic Strikes to Be Called Are ! Heard in England BBBBBsl London. Oct. 18. fBy the Asse I Press.) Disorders occurred In Win! h ill this afternoon. In connc-- H tion with the co il miners' strike, dm-ing dm-ing a demonstration b unemployed ! men who had sent a delegation to H I Premier Lloyd George Downing street Several persons were injured H ia atti mp1 to breuk through a polic cord others were hurt when OH some stonework from a window on the treasury building fell 1 .IA SIT1 TIOV. I The situation which developed in Whitehall at the entrance to Down LH strtet. was an ugly one There were BjWj .a thousand unemployed there HH h disordei tar ted when the un- JH employed demonstrate. tried to break r-1 : . . iWM g.-t into Downing street. It was dur- I ing Ibis rush that the window stones j the treasury crashed down. Po- VBj I and mounted police were called out to the regulars. .M least two of the police and sever-I sever-I al civilians. Including i woman, were l injured In' the early attempts of tlm LO g : ht I" H Flnally the crowd began to throw i'!'c ie o ;le of Downing .1-' ' -ll.ip.-eil during the crush. H i win A number of persons were injured bIsbbbb when crowd he. ded by the red flag of the Tottenham district Socialist and mWMj Labor party, mad.- a determined rush H o break through the poll e. H i .-. m naiiv un1 i- it nag w as captured. asssssj At the same time a small party Of ile'iioiistraturs went to im neighboring if Trafalgar square, set up a red flan san gthe "Internationale" and cheered o ouble ,i-- H e. loo pole . Wl interfering. In Whitehall, the police finally dig- Fifty injured ptrsons were given Ireatmeni when the trouble endep. Twenty of these were sent lo hos- jH London, net. IS. One effect ut U the coal strik.- noon financial London I has been ih.- w ea killing of the pound. Sterling, which has dropped lo $3 14 on buying orders to cover actual and prospective coal shipments from the , United Stales to Europe. The effefiS lias already' been seen on continental exchanges, all Of which moved against Or. at Britain last week and which J again slightly weaker today. H Perslstenl reports of efforts to set- .H tb- the coal miners strike partially re-lleved re-lleved tie- spirit of anxious uncertain-ty uncertain-ty of the British nation today For the moment, the reports seems to have a greater basis in hope than in actual HOPE I OK SI Tl 1 . 1 M I-.N'T. John Rob it Clyncs. termer food s)ih controller, and one of the most mod- H erate labor leaders. bus expn sscd H confidence in a settlement within a Lbbbb1 week, if both sides can be brought to- get her to discuss calmly the emtio- -tflsssfl kcrsv. lie advocates as a basis of nBBBBB agreement the granting to the miners of half their demands, and the BUbmjg-sion BUbmjg-sion of the remainder to an imperial .i. li. Thomas, general secretarj Of the National Union of Railway Men, mMm also has made moderate statements and both these men are relied upon to do their utmost to shorten the strl e DOI Bl l l I.1M. v HARGED. 1 Newspapers contrast the attitude of Thomas and ClynCfl with that of C T. Camp, president of tin- National Union of Railway Men, who has given Signify leant warning to members of that un-ion un-ion of the "serious situation which w ill be created if the miners are defeated." They also call attention to an titter- JH ance by another prominent labOrite iH Edwin Bevln. secretary of the dook IH workers union who in a speech yestcfiS iH day accused the government of having engineered the strike und chui-ged it with double dealing. I I .- transport workers and the rail-Waymen rail-Waymen were evidently marking time todav in ma tier of making the fate- 'H ful decision whether they would lend their support to the striking conl ml- H ners. TIu- appeared Inclined not to H take precipitato action pending" possi-ble possi-ble proposals from some source upon which the government and the miners could negotiate falaaalJ RHPORT AWAITED. The country u watted anxiouslv a report from a meeting held this morn-Ing morn-Ing of the transport workers, which MW includes more than twenty unions. - P,H erlng tho dock workers, the bus and tramworkei'S, the commercial road jfH (Continued on Page Two.) J pes rHh Public Begins to Feel Walkout Effect (Continued from Pago One.) traiisporl men antl the coal trimmers! at tho ports. The council, however, .ifter private meeting adjourned Until lotr.oirnw without announcing Its other meetings which mlKhtl have a vital effect on the situation j Were expected to be held todav One 1 1 was a conference between th trans-port trans-port workers executives and the Na-1 tlonal Union of Hallway Men's executives execu-tives The other was a. Joint meeting of the executives of the Labor party, the Labor members of parliament and the Trade Cnlon congress, which would tring together all the big labor lead-era. lead-era. SOME I wok STRIKE. While the national leaders as a whole, are saying little, then- are some of them who have declared In favor of a sympathetic strike, notably In Scotland Scot-land und at Karrv. Wales, an Important Import-ant coal depot The newspapers are making much) of the fact that while the strike Is completely effective, there are considerable consid-erable sections of the miners who entered en-tered it half heartedly and only ln response re-sponse to orders. The West Yorkshire miners are among those who disapprove disap-prove of the strike, although decTirlngo they will stand by the others. HH3 Tho miners of the vital South Wales Hl coul fields represent the belligerent anSi section of the miners The bulk of HQ the extremists of the federation are 1KB to be found there and they are eager MbI to carry or. the fight to the bitter end. R-gn OLD WEATHER limit E8 With the shipping, steel and Iron Bra and other Industrie.- already hard hit. Bltjl-J many thousands of men are out of 'bf, work this morning in various parts of the country and it seems certain by Bl9 the end of the week that th, total will Kf T be manj si orea i I thou n nda MM The public alreadl has begun to feel my the effect of restrictions on coal sup- LBs plies for lighting and storin- away. Hi I he people awoke oday to find them- LBita faced with harp tail weather, TL v"' whirl, demands either fires or warmi gag clothing. If the cold snap continues It isHUW undoubtedl) will hav,. an Important VI effect upon the situation No disorders eTa f uny description have been reported. |