Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-03
THE STRIKERS FIRM
They Cannot Be Provoked to
 Acts of Violence.
ONLY THE POLICE EXPECT A RIOT
Prominent Men Urge the Dock Companies
 to Settle the Contest.

Rumors of n Settlement-Both Sides Rest ing on Their Arms and the Situation Re mains Unchanged-No Disahection In the Ranks of the Men-Three Thousand Tall ors Join the Strikers Army-Financial Aid from New York and Australia.
 LONDON, Sept. 3.-The situation to- day is practically unchanged except that the ranks of the men were augmen- ted by the addition of three thousand tailors.
 It is no longer secret that something must be done, and that quickly too, to prevent disorder and possibly blood shed.
 Business mon are becoming uneasy over the disastrous effect the strike has already had upon trade, and the alarm IS great over what may be expected should 1t continue for several days more. Then there is general fear tha< riot will reign in short time. The men are becoming hungry, are without means and in this state will surely be- come desperate.
 What could the police do with so large a body of men, used to the tough est knocks and treatment. It is fact of course that the soldiers could be brought into use to check any lawless- ness that might bc attempted, but what bloody battle it would bo. Soldiers fighting against on army of 15O. 900 strong. of hungry and desperate men, who believe they are in tho right and are backed up in this belief by the majority of Englishmen.
 The police authorities and Home Sec rotary Matthews have been informed that labor agitator Burns had urged the strikers to proceed to the docks and ex- pei the men working in their places.
 ON THE BRINK OF TROUBLE.
 Hunger has done it's work among the strikers and their savage looks to-day and their more savage threats are any thing but comforting to the officials charged with the duty of preserving or der. The authorities arc in hourly ex- pectation of an outbreak and are making careful preparations to meet it. Scot land Yard detectives arc circulating among the men, so as to secure the promptest information of the first move in the direction of organized violence, while the reserve police arc so dis tributed as to be within call from any point likely to be threatened. CONCENTRATING TROOPS. Troops have been quietly concentrated at stations nearby tho shipping whore it is expected their services will be first called into acquisition, and altogether the authorities will be found fully pre- pared in the event of serious distur- l~.~ excitement and little doubt is felt that the truce between the police and the hungry and desperate laborers will have come to an end soon. People on the streets and at the clubs speak and act like soldiers on the eve of battle, for the feeling is almost universal that within few hours the shock must come and that the police and the soldiers will not be the only people who will have to take hard knocks when the time comes. CLERKS ON THE DOCKS.
 Steamship clerks are clumsily work. ing away at some of the docks loading Q few vessels while ten thousand angry strikers are looking on and hurling curses at the men. They are kept at a distance from the docks by strong | AOICc OA pOAlCcs DuC GuCJ IcCCANo dCCOS sions to their numbers every hour and 1t is feared that the first trouble will arise at these points.
 THE wHARFINGERs' OFFER
 The strikers arc considering propos ition to go to work for the wharfngers at sixpence per hour regular and seven pence for overtime. The offer was made by a committee of the wharfngers, ant Burns, the leader of the strikers, seems to regard 1t favorably.
 RUMOR OF A SETTLEMENT.
 It is stated that Sir Donald Currie, M F., had long conference with MT. Nor wood, the chairman of the Dock Com pauies to-day, and that settlement o the pending strikes is likely to be th outcome.
 Conviots Unloading Vessels. LONDON, Sept. 3.--The Governmen is employing convicts to unload vesSel l