The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-28
KEEPS GROWING.
Big Hamburg Strike Spreads
to Municipal WOrkmen.
Twenty Thousand Men Now Re-
ported to Have Quit.
PARIS s'FIGARO" SAYS
The Strike is Fomented by
British ShipOwners
To Divert Trade to the English
Ports.

Hamburg. Nov. 28-The municipal
Workmen employed about the water
and gas works demand an increase of
wages, threatening to go on a strike
today if it is not granted them.
London. Nov. 2S.-The executive
committee of the London Dock Labor
ers' union has received dispatch from
the leaders of the strikers at Hamburg
asking them to do all in their power
to prevent steamers from Hamburg
seeking coal from procuring it. The
coal beavers at Hamburg yesterday
decided to join the striking dock la
borers. and this action, it is believed.
viii compel steamers accustomed to
coal at Hamburg to seek their fuel
elsewhere. Should the London men re-
fuse to coal steamers putting into the
Thames to I'LL their bunkers their ac-
ton would, it is thought tend to
greatly strengthen the cause of the
Hamburg strikers.
Hamburg, Nov 28-The strike of
dock laborers gives promise of becOm-
ing extensive by the addition of men
from other branches of the shipping
trade. A very largely attended meet
ing of corn pOrterS and coal beavers
was held here today, and it was almost
unanimously decided to join the strike.
1t was announced at the meeting that
the port laborers of Holland, Belgium,
England and the United States had
promised TO support the strikers mere.
Paris, Nov. 2S.-The Figaro accuses
British shipOWners and manufacturers
of fomenting the strikes at Hamburg
in order to divert trade to English
ports.
Hamburg, Nov 28@The allied labor
ers, engineers. donkeys and boiler
cleaners union have resolved to pre-
serve solidarity with the striking dock
labOrers, to give them financial aid and
to go on strike if necessary to the
success Of the men who are out The
coal DOrters in the employ of the
Herdmann firm ceased work this morn
ing The Ham burg American Line
steamer Furst Bismarck Will be fitted
out with sleeping accommodations, etc,
for the use OF the men who are work
ing.
London. Nov. 2s.-The Daily Chroni-
Gle prints a dispatch from Berlin say
ing that there are probably 10000 men
in the ranks of the strikers
According to q dispatch from Ham
burg to The Central News. work is be
ing. carried on upon only 35 vessels out
of 214 now in port there. The employ
ers of the dock labOrers declare that
the strike must necessarily collapse in
a short time, as no assistance in the
shape of funds for the support Of the
strikers is being received from outside
sources.
New York. Nov. 2S=The Hamburg
American Steamship company agency
in this city does not expect the strike
in Hamburg to spread to it's docks in
Hoboken. The agent, Mr.. Boas. has
received only meager reports of the
extent of the strike and the measures
which will be taken to meet it. He
thinks it viii be settled soon.
Edward McHugh representative of
the International Federation of Ship,
Dock and River Workers, said yester-
day that the New York longshoremen
are not preparing to strike in aid of
the men in Hamburg. He has recently
organized four unions of the longshore-
men in New York and these. together
with the old organizations which he
has been Strengthening. include 1000
members.