Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-25
A BORN AGITAT0R.
John Burns Delivers a Harrangue
to Dock Laborers.
He Attempts to Incite Them by Refer
ence to Americas "Pinkerton
Force"-England's Way.
House Burned, in Which Two Children Are
Cremsted-An Esteemed FunctionarY
Convicted of Forgery.
Gathering of Dock Laborer..

Gathering of Dock Laborers.
Special to the Gazette
LONDON, Aug. PA large meeting
of dock laborsrs was held to-day, at
which John Burns, creator of. their
union, and who is looked up to by them
as almost superhuman, delivered q spir-
tied harangue, exhortiDg them TO be hrm
in maintaining the rights which they had
acquired with so much difficulty aud sur
fering. He referred to the proposed
union of ship owners, and warned the
men that this combination of $500 ,OOO,-
600 capital would enter upon life and
death struggle with the lockers organi-
cation If the latter showed the slightest
prospect of weakening. Burns said he
hadlIheard that the shlp-owners were
considering the advisabillty Of establish
ing ''Pinkerton force' similar to that
which was employed by private corpora
tions in America. He excltedly declared
that if this was attempted, the lockers
would
"RAIsE THE HAIR
Of these hired assassins in less than
twenty-four hours. 1--WE will compete
with these janizaries, revolver to re-
volver,' cried the orator, and his
plause.
Burns remarks were probably in
tended chiefly to rouse the feeling of the
men and stimulate their enthusiasm,
for he knew as well as anything that
Pinkerton would not be tolerated in
England. The chief of London police
would be obliged to retire in disgrace If
he should admit his impotenoy to
nnrfr hu nf no
employment of private armed police by
business concerns, nor would any cor
poration think OF going TO the expense OF
hiring such force, for nothing is more
certain under English law than that
every penny Of damage done to property
by strikers or rioters can be recovered
promptly by the injured party from the
public funds, nor does the necessity of
employing private police exist here
to the extent that il seems to in the
United States for there is not the same
hesitancy here in calling upon the militia
to aid civil authorities.
IN HONOR OF DILLON AND o 'BRIEN.
The demonstration at Limerick to-day
in honor of John Dillon and William
O'Brien was a great one, in point both
in numbers and enthusiasm. There was
80, 900 men in procession, with bands and
banners innumerable. The meeting was
intended as a testimonial OF sy mpathy tor
Mr.. Dillon in his controversy with Bishop
O'Dwyer over the Persco mis- ion as well
as sort of farewell to Messrs. Dillon
and O'Brien before their departure for
America. The speeches were of a char
acter to encourage the Irish people in
their recent political course. Mr.. Dillon
INDUCED in some bitter denunoiation of
Bishop O'Dwyer.
BURNED IN THEIR BEDS.
The house of Mrs. Moody was burned
at Kilrush last night. Mrs. Moody was
rescued with great difficulty, but despite
the efforts of a hundred neighbors her
two children were burned to death in
their beds.
AN OFFICIAL IMPRISONED.
The burgomaster of Osterwolck has
been convicted of forging an official doc
ument and sentenced to q long term OF
imprisonment. For such an esteemed
functionary to be convicted of crime is SO
rare in Germany that the incident at
tracts much attention.