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THE DAY BOOK? 5Q0 SO, PEORIA ST. j398 TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1, No. 2Q5 Chicago, Thursday, May 23, 1912 One Cent GREAT BRITAIN UF AGAINST SERIOUS LABOR' SITUATION ONE THOUSAND MEN WALK OUT Teamsters, Dock Workers and Freight Handlers in General Strike ThatAWill Effect Every. United Kingdom Pqrt London, Liverpool and Glasgow Facing Famine. . London, May 23.- - Great Britain today is, facing the most serious' labor situation in its his tory; and one beside which the re cent strike of the coal miners pales into insignificance. The executive committee of the U.S. TRANSPORT ORDERED United Transport Workers this TO CUBA Washington, May 23. The United States transport Prairie has been ordered to leave Phila delphia tonight with 500 marines aboard and proceed to'Guanta namo to protect American inter ests endangered by the present serious negro revolution in Cuba. The gunboats' Paducah- and Nash ville are already at Guantariamo, the central pbintIn the unsettled district. Two jthousancl "negroes are in revolt,' pillaging and burning houses In the. Guantanam6 dis trict. ACuban-gunboat and a reg iment of infantry have been sent to suppress thefm. r JMany t Cubans openly declare that the uprising- is for thet ex press purpose of provoking inter vention by the United States and is being fomented by interests that desire the establishment of an American protectorate. - -. afternoon called a general strike of all the teamsters, dock work ers.and freight handlers in Great Britain. Before nightfall, 70,000 men had walked out in London alone In Liverpool Glasgow and Southampton, 30,000 men had be'en called out by their local unions. While the transport workers Lwere taking this action, the exe cutive committee of the Coal Miners' Federation was in ses sion, 'considering what'action the miners should take should the government refuse to amend the minimum scale law. The strike of the transport workers will affect every port in the United Kingdom. Cities like London, Liverpool and Glasgow, which are dependent upon water commerce for food, are facing a famine. - - -The strike, was railed because