The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1888-05-26 00:00:00

STRIKES.

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It would be extremely advantageous if each year a t
ttottirn could be published showing the amount of
money that strikes have cost those engaged upon
Ulm and the country at large; but as such statistics
are not forthcoming, those furnished by the British
Minister at Washington may be studied with benefit.
From the beginning of 1887 to the commencement of
April, 1888, there were, as far as is reported, 1000
strikes in the United States, and of the 400,0f/0
men engaged in them, from 25,000 to 50,000 are
still out on strike. Of these struggles, that
among the New Jersey coal handlers involved a
loss in wages alone to the strikers of £500,000.
The coke workers' strike in Pennsylvania cost
the men £200,000 in wages. Only about 38 percent.,
or little more than a third of the strikers in 1887,
succeeded in getting their demands; while in the pre-
vious year only some 20 per cent. of the strikes were
successful. It is calculated that nearly 10,000,000
days' work were lost, and the loss in wages to the
men is estimated at £2,700,000. Could the statistics
be published, we believe that the proportion of suc-
cessful strikes in this country would be even smaller
than is the case in the United States, because it is so
much more easy for employers to obtain labour from
other sources; but the figures of the American strikes
are good enough to serve as a warning to all men
possessing an atom of sense acraiiist engaging in these
eneidal struggles

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