St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-03
Striking Doekmen Threaten
to Turn Old London Town
on Edge.
Scotland Yard Detectives and
Troops Are Aiming for
an Outbreak.
To-Day's Events Will Decide
the Result Of the Great
Strike.
There Is a Probability That
the Troubles May Be
Settled.

LONDON, Sept. 2.-London is in a
state of nervous excitement. Little
doubt is felt that by tomorrow the
truce between the police and the hun
cry and desperate Iaborers will have
come to an end. People on the streets
and at the clubs tonight speak and act
like soldiers on the eve of battle, for
the feeling is almost universal that to-
morrow the shock must come, and that
the police and soldiers will not be the
only people who will have to take hard
knocks when the time comes. Steam
ship clerks are clumsily work
ing away at some of the
docks loading a few vessels, while
100000 hungry strikers are looking
on hurting curses at the men. They
are kept at distance from the docks
by strong force of police, but they re-
ceive aceeSsionS to their numbers every
hour, and it is feared that the first
trouble will arise at these points. A
deputatiOn representing eighty of the
leading Shipowners of London called
to-day upon the managers of the dock
companies and urged them to permit
vessel owners to make their own az
rangements with men to load and dis
charge their ships, pending a settle
ment OF the existing troubles. Charles
Morgan Norwood, the chairman of the
dock companies, replied to the delega-
ton, and urged them not to press their
request, as it involved
CONCESSIONS TO THE STRIKERS
against which the companies were
fighting. Mr.. Norwood reminded them
that it was in the interest of all ship
pers. as we'll as in their own, that the
companies had taken the determined
stand they now held, and he was con-
WINGED that the whole commercial COM
munity and the laborers themselves
were interested that the principle should
be IN aintained inviOlate at any COST;
that prices for wages as we'll as for COM
modities should be fixed by free compe-
titlon in the open market and not by an
obligarchy of censpirators, settling in
secret and formulating their demands
upon a consideration of one side of the
question and only one. AT meeting
O. wharfingerS resolution was adopted
advising the stri ers to accept the dock
companies offer. The
GOVERNMENT is EMPLOYING CoNVICTS
to unload vessels in the Midway. T.
p. O'Connor's paper, the Star. has col
lected e2, 500 for the strikers fund. A
uISpdbCl W Tic oldT ITOm melbourne,
Australia, says that at a meeting there
to-day the sum of e1,500 was collected
in behalf of the strikers. There are
signs OF grumbling among the strikers
over the division of the relief funds.
The stevedores complain that shey are
not receiving their proper share of the
funds. But the men generally stand firm
and there is nothing like serious disaf-
lection in the ranks. Three thou
sand tallors struck this morning and
paraded the streets. A mob composed
of about 800 strikers
INVADED THE ALBERT DOCKS
this afternoon and compelled the work
men there to cease their labors. No
damage was done to property. Henry
Lafone has proposed that the strikers
agree to work for the wharfingers at the
rate of Cd an honr ordinary time and
I'd an hour overtime. He believes that
such an agreement would force the dock
companies to surrender. Mr.. Burns is
considering the proposal. A section of
the Salvation army In Australia has sent
donation of e200 to the strikers here.