The New York herald., 1878-11-21
THE GLASGOW sHIPBUILDERS.

LOCKOUT OF THOUSANDS OF rRoSwonKIEs
IM,uNENT-MEETTSG OF THE MAsTERs--A
wogKMANs VIEWS on THE MATTER IN DIS
PUTE-A BITTER FIGET IN pRospEcr-THE
DIFFICULTY OF KEEPING BODY AND sopL TO-
GETHER-DARK DAYS AHEAD.
From the Evening Telegram OF Yesterday
SPECIAL CABLE DESPATCH TO THE TELEGRAM.
GLASGOW Nov. 20. 1878.
The Clyde shpbuilders at their meeting just held,
strike resume work forthwith they will lock cut all
ironworkers employed by them in the different ship
building yards
This win Affect thousands of workmen. Many Of
lihood The workmen at large stigmatze this step on
the part of their employers nothing nor less
than tyranny. which may yet lead TO violence.
woRKMAs's STATEMENT.
One Of the work1nen. now on strike made the fol-
lowing statement to-day to your correspondent
'The resolution of the Clyde shipbuilders' En-
gineers' Association. which went into force on the
2st Of October reducing wages less than seven
and half per cent has been the of no little
bitterness Of feeling between master and men. Our
employers have not thoroughly carried their point.
and now, feeling themselves driven into q corner
through division in their own ranks trying to
commence . war of determination on us, their as
sistants.
s'No MERCY
Their motto toward us has been mo mercy. and
in return will give good get These bitter
struggles between capital and labsr are becoming
more frequent and intense day by day The Clyde
and the Liverpool branches Of the United Society Of
Boilermakers and Iron shipbuiders to which
belong. is very powerful. We number over twenty
thousand members in England. Ireland and Scotland.
and we have at the present moment over 100000 in
the general fund.
THE PROTEST.
when the masters, driven by competition in trade,
by the Bank of Glasgow failure. reduced and
half per cent our society adopted protest"
Here the Telegram informant read from his note
book follows:-
"Resolved. That the Executive Board of the United
Society Of Boilermakers and Iron Shpbuders notify
theyarious Clyde firms that it considers the reduction
of wages forced upon It's members equivalent to dis
charge. and they therefore quit working. Any mom-
bcrs however, who have contracts at tho old prices
justified in continuing their work until tho expi
ration of the stipulated time"
DARK DAYS AHEAD.
''Well," said the workman. in conclusion, ~ see
dark days ahead for US all. The shipbulding trade
on the Clyde will suffer heavily. Many one of us,
with our wives and BARNS, will soon know once
more what hunger means. Some of the
gloomy for they fear that trade will be killed.
xxEPING BODY AND soUL TOGETHER. 4.
with tho irregular work have
hardly keep body and soul together. When the En-
ployers Committee met tho 25th Of last month
We sent in petitions. asking that they would COM
promise with us on fivo per cent reduction. with
piece work and time wages before. but they were
were too stiffnecked TO heed us.
PREVIOUS STRIKES.
''Tney forgot did not what poor fellows
hal gbne through in tho strikes Of 1872 and 1875 The
pay was higher then than it is to-day. hope we
shant labor riots, but things look If they
drifting that way very quickly"