New-York tribune., 1871-09-26
LABOR MOVEMENTS ABROAD.
TIE STRIKES IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND.
srATE OF AFFAIRS AT NEwCAsTLE-GOOD FEEL
ING BETWEEN THE STRIKERS AND THE
FOREIGN wORKMEN-MEETING on THE TOWN
MOOD

lPROM OUR SPECIAL CoRRRsPoxDRNT.l
NEWCASTLE, Sept. 7.-Newcastle on Tyne 10 |
"a occupied and as animated ~ French town, when
suddenly possessed by the Prussians The magistrates
ant almost permanently; the police are overwofked the
thieves arc speclAuve and sCdct raids the
workmen are excited and hopeful citizens and shopkeep
er merchants and manufacturers suspend their acus-
toned pursuits uh they have discussed the news about
the strike and journalists find the most fruitful topics
when the Canadian subsde for sday In he fer
tile field Of Tradeunon struggles. why the sunderland
strike which led to the Newcastle one succeeded 90 soon
was that Oswald Co.. the chief employers Of the ship
carpenters havns employed 500 Of the l1o were too
poor To encounter srethat s they had contracts on
hand to the nun extent or beyond the means OF their
capital and strike which might diseuAbe them to full
I'LL their contracts would have sent them gazette
They were compelled to give way and they saved them
selves and left the honor Of the unconcedng employers
to 6nd other defenders
In Newcastle employers are more wealthy. Tney be-
leve they starve out their but after fourteen
weeks Of strike the more iubant and hopeful
than ever Last Saturday Newcastle was all excitement
The hands strike held mass meeting on the moor.
No Marquis Of Harrington no MI Bruce intereres here
TO put down public meetings. The Newcastle moor Is the
most magnificent mass meeting ground in England.
The moor which is free to the whole town and Is free
mems property covers twelve hundred No revo-
lutionary orator can complain that he has not ample
room and verge enough" here to describe his case No
grievance however fierce In the center Of the moor can
make itself articuate to the border This moor is not
like HYDE Park sacred to hunkeydom. 1t has always
echoed with the shouts Of TyneSde men for some new
freedom or other Being the great border town IN the
old days. Newcastle did all the fighting against Norwe-
gians, Danes Picts, ecots who sought to pos
sess or cross the Tyne and IN return Tor
these services king after another granted
all manner Of charters and exemptions and right
OF dues to Newcastle and the valiant townsmen always
fN4OfiA AfrHNtVl
own account Even down recent days Newcastle has
been foremost In agitation. The great meeting on the
mOor-to protest against the famous Manchester mas
sacre the Peeroo OF RefOrmers by the Tores
OF le-is still talked Of by old Tynesde patriots as the
greatest menace shown to the Government OF the day
Later when the whig Attorney General, as Mr. Josiah
Parkes in 1880 was caed-he whom they made Master
IN Chancery for his serviceo whggsm among Radicals
took down to Birmingham the compromise OF go
franchise for the Reform bi Mr. Atwood and leaders
OF the Birmingham Political Union accepted It, New
castle went upon its moor and declared Tor tlo
franchise and elO franchise had to be adopted The
whole Government OF England, with $40 Reform bill,
would be very different and dreadful,y backward
to-day had not been for that furious Newcastle-on
Tyne protest
The worhmen Of Newcastle marched more
proudly through the old town to moor meeting than the
strkers did last Saturday crowded streets wished
them success for piten, mechanics and ali orders OF
workib gmen about The men on strike marched In
procession. looking hopeful, and expressing ju0aton'
At the head OF the procession marched all the hands
nOW about TO- and IN he 800 900 OF the Ouse0urn
Cooperative Engine works-the greatest cooperative
manufacturing concern started in England as yet OF
course as this began out OF shs strike. with
Sey 10 employ the hands themselves II began with the
Nine Hours and accordingly great banner was carried
bv the Ouseburn men, bearing the welcome words Ihe
Nine Hours an Accomplished Fact" The men have done
Il for themselves. Foreigners Germans. Belgans, all
snrs OF French Commune men," we're also In the pro-
eession - men who have been brought over by SIT
William Armstrong but who have refused 10
work against their comrades. Several or them
made speeches upon patriotism talks no
universal language and the Trade-Uno have not
provided themselves with interpreters the French ana
German orations wasted OIL the moor air. How
ever the presence of the men was enough and hearty
cheers greeted them There Mr. JOEL local lawyer
employed by the mastersO cOnductheir legal prosecu
tious Mr. Joel ia always upon hs legs. He Is always
before the bench with case, until the town
aficted with Joel on the brain. Every morning brngs
forth its new Joesm. Now II is q wOman-women
never manageable anywhere, are not piable on tne
Tyne side-for hooting the "knObstck foreign hands
They gave the openthrOated amateur female unionis
Is days imprisonment. One man whom they appre
euded for leaving his work. they have sent to Jail to
hard months for breach OF his contract with
Dir William Armstrong.
The men have certainly succeeded. The masters have
admitted by their acts that they could afford the nine
wages than their men demanded besides incurring
The cost Of transporting from country in Eu
rope where they be obtained OF course II II all I'M
uense irritation to the to be told that the labor
overstOcked, and their demand OF only nine
hours labor day could not be afforded and hnd Europe
secured for foreign hands who imported and paid
higher wages than demanded by OF the district
The masters are beaten, and fighting for their
"diGnity"-s very expensive thing to keep up and o
raher ridiculous thing TO stand by, after all the town
they beaten upon the merits OF the contest
Yesterday NorweGians were brought into the town.
their way here bad Of cholera broke ont In tho
ship. The poor who was attacked died in six hours
II the bring the cholera into Newcastle or get
credited with doing 50, 1t will be evil day to them
Notwithstanding all the prOvOcatlon the men suppose
they sustain they behave with admirable good and
patience The chief constable, with OF fairness
and even generosity unusual among chief constabes es
iihed Yesterday to the Bench Of Magistrates
fyhO had committed sundry persons for
moving foreign wOrkmeD) that 9" none Of the per.
sons convicted in any way connected with
the strike except and that the strike hands
behaved 80 we'll thet they really an example to
others" The strike are superior order OF me-
rhanics They have sense and manners Of their own.
Fhey have good advisers In the writers OF The Chron-
ice who defend their position and they take the advice,
and neither give the the employers any handle
against them IT is clear TradeUniOn fight which Is
going on here. The masters completely combined
In a Trades-U Union the men. The masters TOO,
have their "knObstick members The great firm Oi
engine builders Robert Stephenson Co.. have CAS- they
always had in Robert stephensOns hfeime good un-
derstanding with their The famous Geo Stephen
son. the great ptman and his understood the art OF
managing and this firm has not Joined the masters
Unon nor have their struck and the Masters count
the Stephenson Company /" back-sheep" firm, and
speak very disparagingy Of it, The masters in their
Union quite ready to picket firm that will not
toin fhauna he mp thpV