The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-09
CARDINAL MANNING
And Socialist John Burns on The
London Strike.
THE CHURCHMAN AND AGITATOR
Commend the Strikers-The Capacity OF Self
Sacrifice is the Philosophers Stone"-
Moderation Of the Men.


NEW York, Oct. S.-The New Reufelo, OF
London, contains the following comments
of Cardinal Manning and John Burns upon
the recent great strike.
Cardinal Manning says: about the
strike can say nothing but what every
body knows already. Certain facts, how
ever. have forced themselves upon me IN
the following order:
.G1-The immense suffering which falls IN
a moment upon women and children, and
the ruin of careful thrift which is drawn
ont from savings banks and prudential So
cieties. Moreover, there is ruin among the
lesser tradesmen and bar to the lmporta'
ton of food. A strike makes bankrupts OF
tens of thousands of the most deserving OF
our people.
"2-The unknown dangers which in
moment might by the act of fool or mad
man or malefactor be let loose upon US.
Once begun, none could forsee the end.
"3-The spread Of the restless sympathy
in the labor market all over the land
and especially in the chief centres OF in
dustry.
.4-The almost certain injury permanent
lvinficted upon the port of London. 1t is
proverb that capital, like fish, is shy, and
when once frightened away Will not re
turn. Commerce is capital in activity.
Nevertheless, without any blind sell
praise believe 1 may say that since the
cotton famine of the north there mas oeen
no uobler example OF selt-commanu IMAM
we have seen in the last month; and L am
bound to bear witness not only to the self
command of the men, but also to the mea-
sure1 language and careful courtesy OF the
employers. ...,.
.rhev have maintained an attitude of re
sistance to what they judged 10 De eNceS-
sive. or at least, inconsistent Win Tue
grave interest OF those Tor Whom tney we're
trustees. Now, happily, all are reconclled.
The conduct on both sides gives the surest
pledge of peace, and of mutual and perIna-
nent welfare Slight disorders here and
there were inevitable and foreseen. The
seeds of them were sown before the strike
They sprang up after 1t, not from IL, ana
by wise policy will soon cease to exist
John Burns, the leader of the triumph
ant strikers, says: at was attempted to
persuade the public that this was the out
come of Il gigantic organized and secret
conspiracy on the part of labor against
CAPITAL. with a pecunidry basis of limitless
Subscription from foreign Soclallts. Far
enthetically l may say that the amount OF
money which the strike committee re
countries did not exceed, and barely reached,
elO0. Germany sent US, l believe, S5Oi
France inst half that sum, Belgium ABOUT
AS much as France, and we mad reason 10
think that these sums, such as tney
were. were by no means the exclusive con
tributions of the German, treuch ana BEL
ylan Socialists The statements OF detrac-
tors under that head are there disposed OF.
The charges Of conspiracy and secret plot
tinu I think. | can best meet and refute by
:, hrief narration of the chief antecedent
causes of the strike, which will show how
omen and unabaShed have been the metnoas
Of it's lnstigators and leaders throughout:
- 1t is now some SIX years since John
WILLIAMS. myself and others commenced
onr crusade among the dOckers-a crusade
of the dawn | may call it, for we did our
barang11iny among the men in the hours OF
the morning before their work and ours
had commenced. 1 myself, with my wife,
nave frequently left home at and o'clock
in the morning, winter and summer, and
tramped to the docks ana maze speeches al
three different gates and returned to begin
INV DAVIS work in the West End at or
o,clock [ have done this for weeks and
months together l was doing it at inter
walls for three years, 1884, 1885 and 1856.
at was in this way that l came to know
the men Familiarity and they TO know me.
Some of these men had been at scnool win
the docks, for l, too, have done my turn
there at my trade of engineer. 49,,
"At this particular period, and Still
earlier | was actively concerned in spread
inc the movement OF the unemployed
throughout the whole of the east end OF
London, working thirteen hours day for
nv bread and cheese At the brother
hoods, in Westminster 1 maze time to do
something as a Socialist propagandlst and
fornet. or helped to form, several new
trades unions in various parts OF London.
The notion of the combination which, IN
all the DAYS to come, is to be the watch
word of labor, had been hard to lnstlil INTO
the men who while accustomed to take the
dole of capital, have been fearful Of asking
them whether it were their only due. But
we warmed them up, and they knew that it
was a question of combination or nothing
ON Thursday. Friday and Saturday, Au-
oust Il. l6 and Il, ] spoke thirty six times
outside of wharVes, docks and warehouses,
Mr.. Mann, Mr.. Tillett and my champion
did as much. We put the match to every
corner of the building-sIttlng on walls or
standing astride of pallngs.
1.-THE Saturday Rcriclr, by the way, does US
"A small injustice in its instruction OF tub.
] should have welcomed tub often, had
there been q tub convenient, but not tub
was used throughout the strike Ihey did
not even roll us out barrel from the
docks. Inc Slrlke from HISb " 4a7u was
full of surprises to me, and 1T Is, so lar as l
remember the first revolt of its kind that
has dispensed with the legendary platform
of demagogy.
"When thestrike was two days advanced
the steyedores took upon them 10 marshal
the men, no light undertaking, Tor re
cruits poured in at every hour by mites
and by hundreds in a little while. The
stevedores and lockers were no more than
units among the mass Of strikers. The
coal porters came out. The hghtermen
pressed after them; one trade called out
another. We had at one time 100000 men
on strike.
"The strain that was thus put upon the
leaders is scarcely to be conceived. The
economic questions of the strike seemed
for the moment to sink into nothlngness In
comparison with the question OF a commits
sariat. We had to find food for 25O, 900
stomachs every day of the week. we
formed committees, and committees OF re
lief had to sit through day and night.
There was not an hour out of the twenty
four at which two or more representatives
of the general committee were not TO pc
found at their posts. When l went into
the streets hunger made its mute appeal to
me at every turn. 1t is that that is so sad
in every strike. There are moments when
one asks if it be really worth while-lf 1t
be not better that the laborer should be let
alone to take his accustomed dole and exc
it out from day to day as he has been used
TO do.
''This is a foolish sentiment which half
an hour OF cool reflection disposes OF.
Every faith must have its martyrs; every
victory has its stain. The capacity OF self
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