Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-09
REJECTED A COMPROMISE.
The London Dock Laborers Not Inclfns
TO Trust the COMPANIES.

The London Dock Laborers Not Inclined
to Trust the Companies.
LONDON, Sept 9.-On Saturday, through
the efforts of the lord mayor, the bishop OF
London, Sir John Lubbock and Cardinal
Manning, the dock managers were induced
TO offer the strikers all they asked immedi-
ately, except the increase of wages, which
they desired to postpone until Jan. l, 1890.
When this proposition was made to Burns
and the other leaders of the strikers they are
asserted to have accepted it But upon pre-
senting it to the men at their meeting Sat
urday night it was rejected.
Change In Public Opinion.
The result of this has been that public
opinion, which had been up TO Saturday
evening almost a unit in sympathy with the
strikers, has experienced a revulsion which
cannot fail to have an influence upon the ul-
innate result of their fight The action of
Burns and TIllett, the leaders of the men, in
signifying their approval of a compromise
and then, when the proposal had been I'M
conditionally accepted by the dock
managers, deliberately repudiating it, is al
most every where condemned
The Lord Mayor Disgusted.
The lord mayor asserts that Burns I'M
questionably accepted the compromise pro-
posed, and says that, now the men have re-
jected it, he washes his hands of the whole
business Hints are not wanting that the
leaders of the men have ends of their own to
compass, which to be furthered only by
a continuance of the strike, aud that they do
not hesitate, for purely selfish considerations.
to sacrifice the best interests of their willing
dupes
An Issue of Veracity.
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ed the terms proposed, and insists that the
men are certain to bring the dock managers
to their senses, and that Thursday will see
a complete victory for the men, He SAYS
the strikers had excellent reasons for reject
ing the compromise.
Afraid of the Dock Managers.
The dock managers, he says, were willing
enough to end their troubles in this way, as
this would give them over three months in
which to prepare for the change, and long
before the end of that time they could have
ousted every man concerned in the agree
ment and filled the places of the men With
others who would be perfectly willing to
work at any terms offered them The men.
he says, are not to be caught by this sort of
chaff They are well aware that they have the
whip hand at present, and they will not con-
sent to yield their advantage for a deferred
advance of wages, the fruits OF which they
are never likely TO reap.
The Lord Mayor and Cardinal Speak.
The lord mayor and Cardinal Manning
yesterday joined in n letter in which they re-
count the negotiations leading up to the pro-
posed compromise, its acceptance by John
Burns, and its final rejection by the men
They express great surprise ut the repudia-
ton by the striking men of an agreement en-
tered into deliberately by their leaders and
warn the mep that if they persist in continu-
ing the strike they will forfeit the SYM
party of all classes, which has been hitherto
freely accorded them.
The Men stick to Their Ground
The meeting of strikers at Hyde park yes
terday was an orderly affair. Burns har-
angued the men, and in the course of his
sPeech declared that the assumption ON the
part OF the men, who had acted as mediators.
that he had agreed to their proposal was a
mistake. He again asked the men whether
they desired to accept the propo sition, and
there was a loud shout of "NoP