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LONDON —The largest city in the world awoke today to find itself as helpless as any little roadside hamlet.
Confident yesterday that there would be an 11th hour settlement of the general strike, London seemed really amazed today to find its transportation facilities at a standstill.
starting at 4 and 5 a. m., workers of all ages and walks of life began trudging toward their daily tasks in the city.
New York, May 3.—(AP)—Disruption of what promises to be a record trans-Atlantic tourist service may result if the general strike in England, scheduled to go into effect at midnight, extends through the month of May, shipping line officials and representatives of British seamen said here tonight.
Estimates of the number of tourists going to Europe this summer based on advance bookings, reach as high as a half million persons.
Bookings have been so heavy that several of the larger lines are already sailing ships on an average of one a day.
An explosion of fire-damp took place in a colliery at Pemberton, near Wigan, on Friday evening last, by which no less than ten lives have been sacrificed, and six other colliers have been placed on beds of suffering, with scarcely a possibility of recovery.
The colliery is that called Norley-hall, and is worked by the executors of the late Mr. Danglish, of Pemberton. The coal-bed is one of considerable extent, and belongs partly to Reece Bevan, Esq., and partly to the estate of the late Duke of Bridgwater; but Mr. Daglish had power only to take the coal to the boundaries of Mr. Bevan’s estate.
Hurl Themselves From Upper Floors of 10-Story Down Town Fire Trap
Bodies Piled By The Score In The Street
Blaze Started in Triangle Shirt Waist Co.’s Plant
Worst In The City’s History
Chief Croker Blames Municipal Building Department
New YorkYork, March 25.—A fire that spread like a spark in a powder train, trapped 2,000 employes of the Triangle Shirt Waist company, on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors of the 10-story loft building at Waverly place and Greene street, at 5 o’clock this after noon.
More than 175 lives were lost. The police figures at midnight were 150 dead and 75 injured. One hundred and fifty had been taken to the morgue up to midnight. There were at that hour still 12 bodies on the ninth floor, according to Chief Croker, who was directing the work of removal. Three victims had died in St. Vincent’s hospital; three in Bellevue and one in the New York hospital. There were still a number of bodies in the basement and sub-basement of the structure, but it was said by the chief that it would be impossible to tell before morning just how many as the sub-cellar was completely filled with water and the cellar was waist deep. The water was being pumped out but this was an all night task.
Graniere Sues the National and Providence Mills Company for $5000 Damages.
The national and Providence Worsted Mills are defendants in a suit brought by Filippo Graniere in which he asks for $5000 damages, for injuries received while clearing a machine belonging to the defendants.
The plaintiff alleges that in April of 1902 he was hired to clean a certain machine and that while in process of the work, the machine was sometimes put in motion. No instructions were given, as to how to avoid being entangled he claims and he alleges he was caught in the machine.
A serious labor trouble has prevailed at Lawrence, Mass., this week, resulting from the strike of 15,000 textile workers. In changing from a 56 to a 54-hour week, the mills reduced wages accordingly. The hands wanted the full week’s pay. Now they demand an increase of 15 per cent, double pay for overtime and the abolition of the premium system. There was so much rioting that eight companies of the state militia were ordered to reinforce the police and civil officers. The state hoard of arbitration is trying to bring about a settlement, and there were indications yesterday that the troubles would soon be settled.
Friday marked a week’s anniversary of the battle begun by the International Tailoring Company to break the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and establish “open shop” under the scab label of the United Garment Workers. And a lively anniversary it was.
With every one of the 800 strikers standing out solid, the strikers’ spirit is better than ever. The firm thought that about 80 per cent would stay, but not one remained, only about 25 scabs furnished by the scab agency of the United Garment crew are on hand, and not one solitary garment has been made by them. They are too busy thinking how they are going to get back home with a whole skin.