The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-05
STRIKES IN ENGLAND.
The Dock Companies in London
Coming Round.
THE rISCoNTENT IN LIVERPOOL.
The Dock Laborers There Receive the Pay
x That the Thames WOrkmen Demand
Theories About 1t.

Especial 10 THE HERAID-Examlner CABLE
LONDON, Sept. 4.-The best information
obtainable is that to-day will witness the
beginning of the end of the strike. Inc
dock companies joint committee held
long consultation last eve, and it is reliably
reported virtually decided to accede to the
shiuowners' request that committee OF
practical men on behalf Of the dock COM
Danies and shipowners should meet at once
10 arrange plan by which the latter may
hire the labor necessary to discharge the
ships instead Of having it done by the docks
Joint committee 1t is certain that the pas
sage of a formal resolution to that effect
was not reached until morning. It's, how
ever reported from a reliale source that
Norwood and his associate directors came
10 the conclusion last night that such &C
ton should be taken.
The bringing together of the two com
7nittees for the purpose stated must be re
yarded as promising a speedy settlement OF
the strike, 1t means that the docks joint
committee has at last decided to allow ship
owners to employ their own labor at the
docks. if only the minor details can be sat
isfactorily arranged. No wonder the ship
: owners are alarmed and disguised; IN addl-
non TO the loss Ol llLllC many VI LuCAll W IL
have heavy damages to pay for delayed and
spoiled goods The condition of a single
Industry viii Illustrate the situation. The
Kaikoura and Fifeshire arrived from New
Zealand nearly three weeks age and their
cargoes are still undelivered, in spite OF
tremendous efforts to obtain outside help.
The Fifeshire, which had on board 25,OOO
cases, has only been renewed OF nan ner
number. and Monday the few men who
were engaged on her left their work. The
Kailxoura contained 81, 600 frozen sheep and
only a few hundred OF them were unloaded.
The supply IS insufficient to meet the de-
mand and as a consequence prices are
being maintained at cd. and SGD. per
pound The merchants are unable to carry
out their orders, and provincial markets
are destitute in comparison with the usual
supply.
Another vessel, the DOric, has arrived
with $4,000 frozen sheep on board, She
7s.ft Gravesend Monday and was expected
at the Royal Albert docklast night. when
she will have her hold open for discharge
remains to be seen, for there are nearly
seventy thousand carcasses undercharged
at present and what with the Doric's
- coo. some one hundred thousand car
c,sses will be lying idle. One. large firm
Of exDorters which has connections in
&srerv port of New Zealand for getting
good supply of mutton. is almost at a stand
still and 1t expects that Wnen inc Sulhe IS
over that the market will be glutted and
prices as a natural consequence will be
very low.
The news of the dock laborers' strike at
Liverpool took the London colonial merch-
ants and brokers by surprise. Several
veil known colonial firms as last resort to
avoid a disastrous delay of stock shipment
TO England wired to their Liverpool agents
Monday afternoon to redirect and trans
mort their goods by rail to Glasgow. Heavy
losses are being suffered by merchants who
are executing orders under contract, they
being unable to carry them out in the time
stipulated. In dispatching goods from Lon
don to Glasgow the cost Of freight is double
the prices paid for the shipment Of stock
direct from London to Melbourne. rms
.y0as to show only in a small degree the
magnitude of the extra expenditure en-
tailed upon the London merchants by the
Lresent strike.