New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-09-14
LABOR MOVEMENTS.
THE ENGLISH STRIKES.
TIE MOVEMENT SPREADING TO WALES.

It is announced that 35 golfers and IRON /
workers in Monnouthshire Wales, will strike unless
rice OF 10 per cont in wages is accorded them.
The Strikers League at Newcastle Tyne. In favor OF
aine hours for says work. have Issued manifesto e1
pressing the hope that the fight will be continued until
complete victory is obtained over the employers The
manifesto promises tho rs long as the strike continues
the men shal D" provided for. Eight shngs per week
van oe ~ each man and shilling for eaeh chiiu
-ugsged in the strike.
vHE STRIKE At NEwCAsTLS- NINE HOURS
DAY DKMASDED-A COMPROMISE OFFERED
BY THE EMPLOYERS But REJECTED BY THE
sTRIFLRS-IMPORTED FOREIGN WoRkhEN
REFUSE TO FULFILL THEIR CONTRACTS
IFRoh OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
LONDON, Sept. 2.-The number of working
men strike in England may De conh'eu
BY tens OF thousands They did not oil begin al once
and will not end at once, nor Is there on
understanding among them all; GILL;
easy TO see bow strike brisgs on another ana now
the history Of nearly all may be read In the history OF
one That at Newcastle comprises the greatest nnmper
Of men in one body and attracts more interest tnan any
other ard it's history is abGndantly instructive.
Il began IN Sunderland. That town ice near New
castle and is intimately connected with u ny rivalry OF
more than ono kind being Of the great ship building
towns OF which Newcastle rs the greatest while Sunder
land and Newcastle arc The two largest coash1pphg
ports In TIE world It tine strike The sunder-
land shiphlders Struck Tor nine nsurs day ana tney
rot t. but this first strike included only the ship
sarJenc-s The engine still worked ten hours,
and the situation speedily became impossible for the two
Of tOileG together on the same ship one out
sde the other insde Those of the greater skill and
rank founu themselves at work hour after the
outsiders had BrOcked of, and the outsiders employed
the leisure hour bantorpg the insiders on their want
OF spirit In submitting tenhours task, while they
themselves endured only nine 1t not long before
strike OF tire engine-sThs was agreed on, and they
easily obtained the same concession as the carpenters
Now mant OF the Sunderland engineers belong to the
Newcastle Trade Unioas The contaiOn spread TO
the banks of the Tyne, and the Newcastle engineers,
counting on easy sutcess, followed the Sunderland ex
annie struck fer nine hours Ts happened fourteen
weeks ago
But Newcastle employers seem TO BE- made OF less
uailcabc stuff than those Sunderland They not only
would not grant te mems request they would not listen
70 It, They had rot yet learned the lesson that one would
have thought Impressed everybody by the dreary his
tery trade disputes year afteryear That lesson
tire absolute necessity Of moderation on both SIDES,
COUPLED with the belief that both SIDES there Is some
mare right and equitable claim, and that such matters
have got be adjusted in the long run by mutual con-
session The ina tiers and not enemies. if they
snly knew it, but Newcastle affords only one more
melancholy example OF what comes from acting as II they
were. Whether the engineers demand was reasonable
or nO-and believe 1t was-the masters response to 1t
and foolish. They refused TO the
uen refused all consultation explanation, and sent
them lawyer TO confer with. Naturally the mcn re-
sented kind Of treatment and nearly 10000 struck
work in body
so tcgan the long muddle disastrous both sides, full
Of wees and losses to Newcastle tse and to thousands
ero and elsewhere who had part In the affair There
calculations both sides. The were per-
emrtpry They confident that the state of trade
he large contracts in hand the certain losses from
sudden Of labor must bring the masters to
On the other hand the mastcrsit is not good
word, bat II to lie the common one-nndeIratcd
Of the and their determination. They
are obstinate up that way, with dOgged traits
and teeth that shut like bulldogs SO the strike went
Nearly 5000 skilled workmcn left Newcastle so great is
the demand for ships and for that kind Of skill which
goes to the building Of them, that many Of the 5000
found little difficulty in getting work elsewhere II you
had the means of setting them 70 work in America,
had such sbipyards and ronfounderies Protection
10 those interests would giveyOu might have done
than ask them TO come over to you in body There
better wOrkmen for though the yards the Tyne do
turn OUT many big ships and Atlantic liners
those the Clyde the aggregate tinnage Of the Tyne
built ships greater and their character for sound
workmanship stands high as the best and they build
. good mani other things guns for Sir William
Armstrong in the strike Such vast establish
nents his and George Stephensons and Mtchell's
have educated the wOrkmen TO the highest point Some
in fact cmgrated, and advise you to make much
Of them and II en- well enough to get About
L4oO still in Newcastle.
The ger Of the strike il the Chairman Of their
Trades League. Mr. John Burnett. able man. knowing
his business wcll anGwhat is too in such
speaking and writing in good taste and good temper 1t
u lie who carries the negotiations, and directs the
movements OF the They learned the secret Of
organization and the value Of discipline. 1t is wonder
iu how Obcdent they be- these strong wed giants
with their bread at stake and their families welfare de-
pendent the Of such experiment etIike.
or what seems to a sow-movng EngiiShlnan the
much rasher experiment of chan gng his home going
either into the county far of continent.
They have had in addition the powerful support OF The
keprcGse Chronicle, which thinks the employers harsh
ard On the whole, in the wrong, and il afraid 10
Hy So
But il from the employ ers nevertheless that the
nrst proposal for a compromise TIey offered 10
lake two hours a week Cf the Iaen's wOrkih;'th.c,
instead Of the five which they dem: nded. Mr.. Cowcn
Of Chronicle, and Mr.. James Morri.on Mayor 4 Now
castle and himself "a great employer, ehdcavOrcd 10
arrange the return Of tie mc%o work ana they finally
Agreed submit a modified proposition. The masters
net TO consider H. Unnckly, a. This Juucture, they
heard that body OF men employed by Mcssrs Watson
Gurneys had given notice n the mo!unG and left at
aight they ground for brcakag OF Tie
eegotiatOD TIE GLrucys Uhcy bc ong TO tho Norwich
Quaker Gurncyl sat at the council board at the time,
and might have explained with a word this action Of
their workmen chose instead DC silent and tho
negotiatOns 20 Of II is the Gurneys themselves who
introduced the rule which their followed They he'd
enacted that their mip leave when they pleased,
be dismissed by then.-in either at on hour,
notice. On side they had often noted this rule;
the turn OF their men, AMI thoy rs, 0Hly
their admitted right in leaving they did But ths, in
Ia I, put an end to the hoped for compromise.
As natter stand there is nothing 10 Indicate u
speedy settlement. The masters have broug, in
siderable number OF men from other towns hut tie relief
70 them is very partial aud fresh dibclcs have arisen
with the newly imported They seut far OF In
gland for supplies. to Belgium, Denmark Prussia, and
h.rn