Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-02
A MONSTER MEETING
OF THE STRIKERS HELD IN LONDON YBS-
TRRDAY.
Resolutions Passed Unanimously Declaring that tht
Strike Will Be Continued Till The Demands Are
Giansd-Nsw Accsssions Other
Gable News.

LONDON, September Two Thousand
coal beavers and bargemen employed by
Parker Lambert have joined the strikers.
The Council of the strikers held meet
ing last evening and after a long discus
sion on the situation decided to continue
the strike. A monster meeting OF strikers
was held in HYDE Park this afternoon
Mr.. Burns, the Socialist agitator, and othel
labor leaders made speeches. Resolutions
declaring that the men would continue The
strike until their demands were fully con
ceded were unanimously adopted. Th,
enormous crowds dispersed in an orderly
manner.
The Economist
PREDICTS A DISASTROUS RESULT
for the strikers if they obtain the si1
pence rate with the four hour minimum
and says: "The number of men seeking
work at the docks will largely increase.
The companies will employ more perma
nent workmen and avail themselves Of
fewer casual employees. Olly few will
be benefited. The lot of the many will be
harder than ever. The law of the survival
OF the fittest will be exemplified by the
strike, the wide reaching consequences Of
which will be unprecedented in London's
history"
lis estimated that $50, 600 persons took
part in
THE DEMONSTRATION AT HYDE PARK.
During the progress of the meeting Mr..
Burns and others passed through the
crowd and took up q collection for the
benefit of the strikers The money was
received in hats and large sum was OBJ.
tanned. An American gentleman who
was present gave a handsome donation.
In au interview, Mr.. Burns said that the
stlike committee had decided not to
have procession tomorrow. They pro-
pose to devote the day to real work, es
pscislly TO improving the methods oi
collecting funds.
Five thousand railway men held meet
ing at Darlington to-day and decided to
strike unless shorter hours Of labor were
granted.
A DESCRIPTIONS OF THE DOCKS.
Tie London docks, scene of the great
strike, form probably the greatest docking
system in the world 1t is probably true
that hundred million dollars have been
expended upon them, and they do not
yisld direct profits to the deck companies
proportioned 10 their great cost. Indi-
rectly, however, they help to promote
British commerce, and are in that way
profitable to their ownera. st. Katherine's
docks. the nearest to London Bridge. were
opened in 1928 and cost $4,000, ,000
London docks are still older, having been
opened in 1905. They cost $40, 600, 600
and contain the great warehouses for tObac-
co rented by the Government. The Surrey
docks and Commercial docks are more
spacious, and devoted to the grain shipping
trade. The West India docks, opened in
1902, cover three hundred acres, and
the East India docks thilty-two
acres. Milwall docks, in the Isle Of
Dogs, cover 200 acres. But the great
docks are the Victoria and Albert, OPEN
ed respectively in 1856 and 1880. The
Victoria docks cover 200 acres, and con-
tain dry dock capable of docking the larg-
ess steamships afoat 0ne set of ware
houses, used chiefly for storing tea, silk,
cocbineal, carpets, and .Other products Of
India and China, is said to have con-
tinuously stock valued at $25,-
600. The Royal Albert dock,
which is connected with the Victoria, is
the greatest of all, and its completion in
June, $780, WAS the occasion of royal
celebration. This dock is splendid stretch
of waterway, almost three miles in extent,
with range Of over a mile of iron ware
houses, and double line of locomotive
tracks aud numerous travelling cranes.
The dock walls throughout are constructed
entirely of Portland cement concrete,
made and deposited in stu. The aggre-
gate length of deck aud passage walls is
81 miles. The walls are 40 feet high, 8
feet thick at the top, and from IS
to 10 feet thick at the base. and
used up in their construction 100000
cubic yards of concrete, representing So
900 tons of Portland cement. Three
thousand workmen, 600 or 700 wagons,
II or 1S locomotive engines, three steam
"navyies" and a great quantity of
minor machinery of various kinds had
been engaged from 1775 until the summer
of 1880. In the construction of this
magnificent system of docke-a work COM
pared with which the building of the
pyramids, with modern appliances, would
have been no very signal feat. Railway
trains from every company IAN nload
straight into vessels, cattle are driven
aboard, the railway platforms being level
with the receiving docks, and the
largest possible weights of merchandise
are lifted by hydraulic cranes that travel
from shed to shed with singular facility
The dock is lighted with electric lamps,
and the enormous sheds and warehouses
are so constructed that they can be opened
ont from end to end.