St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-05
London Strikers Want to
Avenge the Shooting Of a
ComPade.
Burns Is Doing His Best
. to Keep Them in
Line.
Concessions by the Strikers
Which Are Equal to a
Surrender.
Many Have Gone to Work
and More Will Follow
To-Day.

LONDON, Sept. 4.-The strike COM
mittee met early this afternoon and are
still in session at late hour tonight.
. L hey discussed some new proposals adj
yanced by the wharfingerS, but the
most serious business before the meet
ing was the preparation of manifesto,
which it is expected will be issued in
the morning, denouncing the action of
the police in firing upon the strikers to-
day. The committee is having con-
siderable difficulty in agreeing upon
the wording of the manifesto, some of
the most violent urging that it should
call upon the strikers to arm themselves
in defense of their lives. 1t is reported
that Burns, the conservative leader
of the strikers, is having great
trouble to keep his committee
within bounds, and that prop
osition to arm the strikers out of
the funds contributed by charitable cit
liens was defeated by only two votes.
But violent as is the temper of the conf
mittee, it is marvel of moderation
when compared to that of the men.
The news of the fight with the police at
the dock of the Peninsular & Oriental
company and the killing of one of the
strikers in fusilade from the revOlvers
of the police, spread among the men
like wildfire, and created the greatest
excitement.
THREATS OF VENGEANCE
are heard on all sides, and it is doubtful
il even the great influence of their
leader, John Burns, will avail to pre-
vent further violence. The coal trim
mer who was shots is still alive, but the
doctors say he cannot last through the
night. The men speak of the shooting
as ''unprovoked MURDER" although
eye-WitneSseS of the fight are positive
in the statement that the police drew
their revolvers only when the strikers,
who outnumbered them ten to one,
charged upon them with stones and
clubs. Even after the first fire
the men stood their ground, apparently
uncertain whether to continue the
attack or to turn and flee. 1t was fort
innate for the police that at this critical
moment the men lacked a leader. for
they certainly were not wanting in
courage to face the eIeadly revolvers
pointed toward them. With leader to
give the word they would undoubtedly
have made short work of the handful of
policemen who opposed them. The
shippers are determined that after the
present troubles have been settled they
will no longer permit the dock COM
panieS to carry on the sweating system
under which both they and the laborers
suffer. They will insist upon loading
and discharging their own vessels; will
hire the men to do the work. and allow
neither the dock. companies nor their
foremen to make profit out of the
men on the wages paid. MIR. Lafone,
large wharfiDger, has conceded an adj
vance to his employees, and they will re-
SUma work tO-mOrrOW
STRIKERS VIRTUALLY SURRENDER.
LONDON, Sept. 5.--The strike COM
mittee sat until o'clock this Thurs
day. morning. 1t was agreed that the
committee would consent to the men
resuming work at any wharf paying Cd
an hour, ordinary time, and Sd an hOnr
over time, the ''plus" in piece work to
be equally divided between journey
men and foremen.
These are the terms for which the
strike was inaugurated. but, notwith-
standing the fact that at several of the
wharves the strikers might have gone to
work at these terms any time during the
past ten days, the committee refused to
allow any man to resume work until the
dock companies had been brought to
terms. The consent now given is there
fore accepted as a sign of weakening,
and the early collapse of the strike is
again confidently predicted.