The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-04
lDLENESS IS STILL KING.
THE DOCK OWNERS NOT INCLINED
TO MAKE CONCESSIONS.

No Probability at Present That Ship
Owners VIII Be Allowed to Load
Their Own Vessels-Seethine Dis
content Said to Prevail Among All
Glasses of Working People.
LONDON, Sept. 3.-There is nothing In
the strike situation to inspire hope of an
immediate settlement of the questions at
issue between the dock men and the dock
companies. A deputation Of ship owners.
headed by Sir Donald Currie, waited upon
the officials OF the companies agrin to-day
and urged acceptance of yesterdays pro-
posal to Gllow the ship owners to employ
| their own men to load and unload vessels.
| Mr.. Norwood, for the dock companies. re-
| piled that they could not accede to this
proposition, but would be willing to enter
into further discussion of all the questions
involved with the committee Of the ship
| owners.
DELAYED SETTLEMENT.
Sir Donald said he regretted that a
| definite answer could not be given to the
ship owners, but expressed Willingness to
consent to joint conference He requested
| that the dock officials express their views
IN writing for submission to the ship owners
at a meeting later in the day, to which Mr.
| Norwood assented. The result OF this
| conference destroyed all chance of arriving
at settlement Of the strike to-day and
embittered the feeling of the men.
The chairman of the trades union con-
gress at Dundee, in an address dwelt upon
| che seething discomfort prevalent among
the working classes owing 60 the uncer-
| tainty OF employment and the UNEQUAL dis
trlbution Of the fruits of their labor He
advocated the adoption of legislative en-
actment making eight hours days work as
| a step in the right direction Trades unions,
he said, should now demand larger share
| III the work of mclding national life. Labor
had too long lain under the heel OF capital
IL must arouse itself aud assert its existence.
| MEETING AT TOWER HILL.
At meeting of the Tower Hill strikers
| this morning 1t was decided to continue the
| strike. IL was announced that donations to
! the relief fund had been received from
| France, Germany and Switzerland. John
Burns acknowledges the receipt of 93, 900
| to-day. Threats have been made that il
Sir Donald Currie took his vessels to South
ampton steps would be taken TO prevent
| single ship from unloading
AT Rochester the police have been COM
PEELED to interfere for the protection of the
men unloading vessels in the Medway, who
were attacked by strikers.
THE DOCK MEN STILL FIRM
At meeting of the ship owners this
| afternoon a committee was appointed to
confer with the committee of the dock Off
Gals in accordance with Mr.. Norwood's
suggestion. The dock officials state that
now they have at work greater number
of men than at any time since tho COM
mencement of the strike, and they do not
propose to make any concessions.
| SURRENDER EXPECTED.
1t is believed that the dock directors will
yield by Thursday. Mr. Norwood sent a
| telegram requesting conference with a
| deputatiou of the strikers late this evening.
Mr.. Burns, addressing a meeting at Ber-
| mondsey tonight, justified the manifesto
calling for general strike on the ground
that it had drawn greater attention to the
| appeal for funds. He announced that he
intended Immediately to promote a strike
in Glasgow.
The lord mayor will return to London
| Friday for the special purpose of interced-
ing with the dock companies in behalf of
| the strikers If necessary he will call a
| meeting Of citizens to discuss the situation.
! Alderman Belairi, who is a large share
| holder in the dock compansie, in speech
| at Rochester tonight denounced the action
| of the dock directors.
An important trade society has sub.
scribed 4600 TO the strikers fund.
BAD ORGANIZATION AT LIVERPOOL
The strike at Liverpool now only affects
| 500 men formerly employed at the south
| docks. The men at the north docks have
resumed work at the old terms. The
/ strikers are badly organized and the com
| phnies hope that all will return to work to-
morrow.
| The strike committee here contemplate
| issuing a manifesto setting forth the condi-
| tions on which they will permit the dock
| men to resume work.
The trades congress has rejected by vote
| of 177 to III motion Of want Of confidence
| in Mr.. Broadhursr, member of parliament,
| based upon an accusation that he had taken
shares Of a firm that 'sweated" and en-
pIoyed foreign workmen.
One hundred thousand relief tickets OF
the value of shilling each were issued yes
| terday.
1t is suggested that the lord mayor, gov
ernor Of the Bank Of England and the presi-
dent of the chamber Of commerce, might
succeed in settling the dispute between the
men and their employers.
The dock directors have again issued
| statement of the terms they are willing to
concede.
LIvERPooL's DocKMEN OUT.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 3.-The dockmen whe
had been employed on the grain and four
laden ships here have struck for an increase
| Of shilling a day in their wages. and
work on all vessels has been suspended.
CONNECTED WITH THE SOCIALISTS.
BERLIN, Sept. 2--The North German
| Gazette maintains that the London strike
| is closely connected with the socialist move
ment In proof of this statement it asserts
that a manifesto calling for a general strike
in London was telegraphed to the socialist
paper, the Volks Tribune, two days before
| it was issued in London.
a JACK THE RIPPER SCARE.