The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-05
The Liverpool strike.

ISpgcial to THE HERALD-ExaminerC Cable
LIVERPOOL, Sept. Although the wages
of the Liverpool dock laborers are the same
"a those for which the London dock labor
ers are striking, the example of the Lon
Son men in striking for higher wages is
followed here a number of men yester-
day left their work, and in the morning
one hundred grain carriers went on strike
and marched off in body from the Har-
rington dock The dissatisfaction quickly
spread, and now matters have assumed
serious aspect, several hundred men being
idle as a result of the dispute. AT present
this dispute seems to be confined to the
grain and deal carriers, some twenty OF
the latter who Monday We're working on
the steamer Hethley Hall, which had
arrived from Bombay with a general cargo,
struck work. They demanded an advance
from shillings per day and Sd. overtime,
TO 6 shillings per day and l shilling per
hour overtime, but the master porters who
we're discharging the steamer decided to
give the amount asked for. Negotiations
we're entered into, and most of the men
resumed work yesterday at the old rates.
But the dispute has in the meantime eX-
tended to the South docks. The steamers
Clan Forbes, Astonhall and Barrisford,
which have considerable quantity of
grain on board, resumed unloading yester
tay morning OF the total of the dock
le5orers EN- .loyed, about 20 per cent. were
grain carriers who received , shillings per
day and sd per hour overtime. Shortly
after the work was begun they made a de-
Lnand for 6 shillings per day and l shilling
Der hour overtime. This, without the as
sent of the steamship owners, the master
oorters could not grant and the men left
work Other laborers joined the strike
ia order to support them. The conse-
cueuce is that all three steamers are lying
idle, while between three and four hundred
men have been sent to the owners in each
Ease and it was hoped that during the day
the dispute would either be settled or com
: promised. This did not prove to be the
case. Shortly before noon body of about
three hundred men invaded the quay shed
at the Texteth dock, along side of which
the steamer Milton was discharging
grain. They compelled all the men en-
gagged on her 20 desist, and work
was entirely suspended. Some of the men
desired TO lift few more sacks to finish
lob, but they were not allowed to so. Alter
the intimidators had left a few OF the men
attempted to come back, but the main body
of the strikers having heard OF their ac-
ton returned, and they were again com
PEELED, under threats, tG desst. The
steamer Eolus, which was also in the
EToxteth dock discharging flour from San
francisco, was visited in the same way and
the men working on her were compelled TO
cave. The strikers marched southwark
IN body forcing all laborers on grain ships
to leave their employment. An expert
enced master porter and stevedore con-
aected with one OF the large steamship
companies ard familiar with the condi-
lions of labor at the docks, said
he had been making inquiry and believed
the dispute would be confined to the Bonn
bav grain ships The conditions of labor
at the North and South docks are quite
different. The Bombay steamers, which
mostly go to the South docks. bring their
grain in bags Some of these arc very
heavy. holding as much as three bushels,
and it is necessary to get pretty strong
men TO handle them. On the other hand,
the Atlantic steamers, which go to the
R,orth docks, bring their grain in bulk, and
consequently it is unloaded by elevators 50