Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-09-01
TRANSATLANTIC.
Labor's Crusade Against Cap
ital at London.
STRIKERS STRONGLY ORGANIZED.
No Truce offered by Either Side-Cir-
cumstances That Led to the
Present Crisis.
G opyright, 1889, by New York Associated

G opyright, 1889, by New York Associated
P Iess.l
LONDON, August 31.-The long smoul.
dering discomfort of the laborers in the
London docks received strong
stimulus by the revelations before the
Lords Committee on sweating" last
year. The leaders of the labor move
ment, seizing the opportunity, vigorously
prosecuted the campaign in the East End,
and famed the embers Of discomfort un-
til the dockmen, reused from the lethargy
induced by their sordid surroundings,
submitted to the guidance of Burns and
other active spirits, their concerted action
Heading to the present crisis. The con-
tinuance of the strike for seventeen days
and the strikers determined atti-
tude now shows that the lead
ers carefully calculated the prob
able course of the movement before
notice of strike was formally given. In
terviews had today with functionaries
whose duties bring them into daily con-
tact with the dockmen and those of the
allied employments, show that for years
past the condition of the dockmen's fam
lies has been as bad as any of the worst
cases revealed before the Sweating
Committee. Local Radical clubs and
other organizations are fully alive to the
importance OF
STRIKING WHILE THE IRON is HOT.
They are greatly assisted by lecturers
and by house-to.house propaganda in.
tended to foment discomfort and forward
what, in view Of tonight's situation and
the Strike Committees latest manifesto,
promises to develop into an organized cru
sade against capitalism generally. The
strikers adhere to their full demands,
though the countenances Of many who
enter and depart from the Relief Com
mittee rooms plainly reveal sharp priva-
ton. Public feeling, both in the East
End and in the city commercial
circles strongly favors the strikers. Lo-
cal sympathy is actively exerted to sup
plement various public subscriptions to
afford practical relief.
THE NUMBER OF MEN IDLE.
Today the employees of Yarrow & Co.,
who are under heavy contract to supply
the Government with torpedo appliances
struck, while 5 1000 iron workers at the
Isle of Dogs have gone out for an ad'
vance of six pence. The dock laborers in
the strike number 10000. As the i'm.
mediate sequence of their cessation,
20 900 stevedores, 5000 0lightermen, 2, ,00(
clerks and nearly $4,000 grain weigherf
and laborers are compulsorily idle. A
mass meeting OF dockmen will be held
in Hyde Park tomorrow.
II is stated the managers of the Albert
docks have practically conceded to the
demands of the strikers contained in the
compromise proposal submitted last
evening.
The ironworkers at Firth, in Kent
have struck.
The mechanics crews on the North
western railv-ay demand 5 per cent. in
crease of wages.
BURNS NEGOTIATING.
Burns held conference with the docl
companies today, and submitted the
compromise proposal agreed upon last
| night, stating that the wharfngers had
endorsed it. The dock companies issueC
a statement in conjunction with the
whsrfingers, to the effect that they had
carefully considered tie proposition and
are unable to accept it, and denying tha
the wharfngers hsd accepted it.
| John Burns, in an address to the mer
| tnlS morning, SAID victory was nearer
than it had been deemed possible few
hours ago. The men along the lowe
reaches Of the Thames were coming out
and the belief was becoming general tina
the end was near.
| Burns has obtained the consent of tn,
strikers to authorize their leaders to agre,
upon terms which the leaders think de
sirable to accept.
| MATTERS REMAIN IN sTATU QUO.
The directors of the dock companie
have absolutely declined to make an,
concessions beyond what has alread,
been offered. Matters remain il
statu quo. The Strike COMMITTEES
met late tonight at Wade Arms and de
cided to Withdraw their appeal for
general strike, and to substitute an appea
to trades unions at home and abroad TO
financial help to continue the struggle.