The Press., 1888-05-10
The great strike on the Burlington

The great strike on the Burlington, which has been a. thing of the past foI some time as far as the road was concern. ed, seems at last to have been ab ndoned by the brotherhood also, although the formal order declaring the strike off is still delayed An es mate of the cost cost of the fight to both sides plares the loss iu money at hearly &, 1000, ,000 The Burlington estimates its loss at not less than $l ,500, 900 It will be some time yet beft re the exact figures are ob aimed, but there is no doubt that they will reach this amount. The actual expense of the strike, including the employment of new men, hiring special policemen, and the many in- cidental outlays will reach fully $500, 900. While the Burlington has suffered greatly the men have suffered ten times more in proportion to their capital and income. The engineers and firemeu were ont sixty three days and the switchmen twenty five days. Que tn, u~aLd and tif;y-three engi- neers thus lost pay amour ing to S222, 225 j; l ,O53 tremrn lost their pay, or $l65, SAY; 400 switchm"n lost pay equal to S22, BOO m king the total loss lu wages alone $4l0,- 572, The loss to the Brotherhood of Loco motive Engineers, in sums paid 10 support the strikers, foo's up $234, ,462, divided as follows :: Engineers at the rate of $60 per month, $l32 67S tiremen at the rate oi $40 per month, $88, ,45l; switchmen at the rate of $40 per month, $13, ,333. The STitchmens' Union refused to recognize its mtn's strike and would not pay them a cent The Brotherhood came to their aid however. In addition to this the Brother hoods other expenses could not have been less than $250, ,000, making its total loss $670, ,034
 NGREssMAN RUSSELL of Massachuse ts has come to the front as free trade champion, but in his lauded speech made two statements which the Boston Advertiser says he should have known to be false. ''He asserted that the workmen in American cotton mills received no higher wages than workmen in English mills. The official repor! of the Massachuset,' bureau of statistics of labor shows the highes ! average weekly wage of men employed in tho manufacture of cotton goods in this state tc be $50, and the lowest average weekly wage to be $6, as against SIP IT and $35 respect ively in England. The highest average wage of women is $8. 69, as against $5.6S in Eng land, and the lowest average $4.37, as agains $1.70 in England The highest average wag paid children here is $5. 29 as against $1. Il in England, and the lowest average $l.89, a against 49c in England.
 Mr. Russell further cited the result of tho operation of an American patented hoe ma chine in Europe to show that the European laborer can only produce AZ per cent. of tn amount of work turned out by the American laborer on the same machine. This conclu sion is such sheer nonsense that it deserve no answer. If MT. Russell or any one els really believes what he says, an Am rical manufacturer here will agree to set up an American patented machine in England O Europe and run it with European labo against the same machine here, if MT. Russe
 will pay the cost of the trial in case his con
 clusion is proven to be false"