The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1892-11-09

commence lm m0diAfeIy. Xhe reserve Iuno
10 not 30 ample % that of the spiDners. The
promises Of support from various sources.
however, is ample, and with their own funds
the strikers are confident Of their ability to
continue the struggle for months.
The ELECTS Of the lockout will not fall on
the operatives alone. II will seriously
affect the shop keepers who supply the op-
eratives and their families with goods and
supplits.
The delegates to the Srinners' Association
met tonight in Manchester. The secretary
read kilograms declaring the lock out at
Stockport to be a complete failure, and at
Bury partial failure. In these places the
mill.owners are continuing to operate their
mills at the old scale Of wages. However,
SO 600 workmen are expected to be idle on
Monday. The meeting decided to increase
the weekly levy to shillings pence. Great
enthusiasm was ehOwn.
Compare the foregoing with the
following from New Orleans, and see
the immense advantages enjoyed by
the protected workmen Of America
over the psuper labor Of free-trade
England:
NEwORLEANs, La November. The strike
Of the labor unions composing the Work
ingmen's Amalgamsted Council assume d
more alarming proportions TO day, and the
prospect now is that all Of the city indus
trles, with possibly one or two exceptions.
in which union labor is employed, will be
at q standstill to morrow.
The conference between the marcbants'
and laborers' committees was reaumed at
the city hall this morning. Mayor Fltz-
patrick presiding, and after an executive
session, which covered two hours, was
finally dissolved without result. The mer-
chants persisted in their demand that the
men should return to work before any at
tempt was made to arbitrste the existing
difference,an the men were equally firm in
their demand that the differences should be
arbitrated at once before the men were
ordered back to work; or at least as an evi-
denCe OF good faith that an arbitrator
should be chosen at once. To this prOpo-
sition the merchants replied that no charge
Of bad faith could lie against them. The
men, they claimed, had failed to carry out
the agreement made with them, and if
guarantees were to be given, they should
come from the men.
% to midnight the men had made nc
fresh overturea to their employers. The
Electric Light Workers. Union has decided
to join the strike. but the decision requires
the sanction Of the International Electric
WOrkera' Union Of which il 10 member be-
fore it becomes effective When they strike
If they do, the city will be in darkness. al
the gas men went out yesterday. The long.
shoremen have refused TO strike, and have
resigned from the American Federation Of
Labor.
The Typographical Union met this after
noon, and decided 30 60 out tomorrow
lhls will probably suspeod the publication
Of every morning paper in the city eXcep
the German Gazette.
The guards at the srmories Of the locs
military commands have been doubled ant
arrangements made TO call the troops out a
a moments notice. There has go far beeI
no demand upon their services. Street GA
travel has been entirely suspended, and thu
only means Of transit TO distant parts OF tn
city 10 BY hacks or wagons, which are rul
periodically. The governor spent the dal
in the city, and was called upon By a com
misteo Of strikers. He warned them agaiDs
any breach Of the peace, but declined Il
discuss the strike until he had an oppor
tunity Of hearing both sides Of the case.