The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-12-31 00:00:00

THE COST OF THE COLNE STRIKE,

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The Coke strike has how lasted 30 weeks, and the
prospect of a settlement seems as distant as ever. It is
26 weeks Knee the weavers of Blackburn,_ through their,
association, inquired into the merits of the-disputrl and
resolved to support the hands ott strike; and since then
the support of the strike has been general throughout
the whole district. The following statement, carefully
prepared front the *tithed balance sheets, which are
issued weekly, will give some idea of the cost Of ,the
strike during the last six months -----the taai fteeipts
front the week • ending July 2 to the week ending Dec.
24 (inclusive) amounted to £16,627 Bs. 4d. The ek
penditure in "relief" for the same period was £13,40
1.35. 9d.; while "expenses" (delegates, printing, &e.)
reach the sum of £1,686 17s. sd. The Items or expen-
diture, when added together, do not amount to the totalreceipts, but the &Romney is accounted forby the fact
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that from £3O to £4O have every week been trosmittr
to Bolton, in support of the strike thd .
e, and the
above expenditure no ateotint is taken of the Bolton
strike. To weavers the payments were generally 7s. per
week, and to tenters 3s. 6d. per week. There were aleg
disbursements on account of "assistance to poor families,
and " expenses to parties going to work elsewhere." In
addition, there were various payments to " victims,.
which are generally deducted from the money before It
is forwarded to Colne for distribution. An analysis 0i
the " expenses" gives the following results :
Advocates Deputies from Printiof
Week and Rail- Coln° and RxpenSes talsa"
ending way Fares. Rail*ay Pares. MCCtltive. Shetti,j.
s. a. s. d. £ s. d. £ s•
July 2
9
„16
9 .
„ 30 9 12 9
Aug. 6
„13
„20 10 5 7
5e1t.273 "9
136 111
39
30
01
19 8
6
„10
35 3 -
„17
„24 10 4 6
Oct. 1
, 8
'„ is 10 5 6 07 6 26 8
„22 10 5 7
„29 10 19 2 20 10
Nov. 5 10 9 1 113 9
„12
„19 10 510
„ 26 9 8 6 -1 19 6
8
Dcc. 3
„10 914 10 37 3 48 2
„17
„ 24

Total 260 510 5B 2 8 52 1 1 B5l 17 0
The sum of these items is not equal to the amount given
at the opening of this abstract as the expenditure on
account of "expenses," there being several items of
" expense" which are not classed under any of the above
heads. The " expenses of the executive" do not include
the secretary's salary and railway fares, &c. and from
August there are the following additional' items of
expenditure :
Week ending.

Deputies from other
places, and Fares.
£ s. d.
3 2 0
3 1 7
4 1 6
4 0 0
4 4 9
4 6 8
4 6 8
5 7 8
8 17 5
8 7 7
7 7 4
5 19 6
6 13 2
7 0 2
7 19 2
8 2 8
8 12 8
8 12 6
8 11 7
10 15 6
5 5 8
, 24 (Auditors) 13 15 11a
To these tabular statements of the cost of distributing
the money and carrying on the agitation at head-quar-
ters, might be added statements showing the expense of
collecting the money in the different towns and districts
whence it is obtained, but they would take up too much
space. Suffice it to say, that the expense of collecting
the money and transmitting it to Colne averages from
sto 74- per cent of the amount levied. On all money
received from Preston and Stockport, it is about 20 per
cent. ; from Bamber Bridge, 10 to 15 per cent.; and the
" expenses " deducted from the money raised in Colne,
exclusive of payments to " victims " and every other
item which cannot be classed as "expenses " of manage-
ment, amount to about 33 per cent. of the total handed
over to the strike fund.

Aug. ]3,

se';t.

Oct. 1
„ 1 (Auditors)
if 8

29,
Nov. 5

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THE THREATENED MINERS' STRIKE IN THE WEST
RIDING.—The meeting of colliery masters and the
delegates of the Miners' Union, held at Morley on
Thursday night, did not separate until eleven o'clock,
though the meeting commenced at six. No definite
conclusion was come to, the masters being divided,
seven being in favour and nine against the advance
sought. Another meeting will be held this day (Mon-
day), at Gildemine. One of the largest colliery firms
in the district have already issued a notice to their
agents, to the effect that they will require an advance in
the price of coal, to the extent of sd. per ton, on and
after January Ist. The men seek an advance of wages
to the extent of 2d. per ton, and the masters to meet it
seek 6d. per ton ; and we are told that if the advance
of 2d. is given, the extra is needful to enable the masters
to cover extra expenditure which will incidentally arise.
The Advertiser mentions as a rumour, that the Earl of
Derby's health not 'allowing him to fulfil the functions
of leader of the Conservative party in the House of Lords,
Earl Grey has expressed his willingness to undertake the
post.
The accounts from Vienna are -significant of the
progress of. Austrian bankruptcy. The exchange on
Lonon has risen since Thursday from 1421.- to 150.
The notification that the dividends on the national
loan, which are bound to be paid in. silver, will be
arbitrarily met in. paper, at the exchange of 140, has
produced a very ban effect. A. forced loan of 43,000,000
is spoken of. It is also said that the Government can
no longer pay silver, even to its own troops in Vono4a.