Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-11-26
DOCK LABORERS
To the Number Of Six Thousand
Strike at Hamburg.
The Seamen Threaten to Join the
Strikers Unless Granted Old Wages.
Dock Laborers at Bremen Threaten to
Strike Unless Their Demand for In
creased Wages 10 oranted--Strikes
Are Possible ut Other Places.

HAMBURG, Nov. 25.--The strike o.
the dock laborers and others employed
in the shipping trade continues.
The companies In those places which
belong to the Atlantic steamship asso
citation have undertaken to carry out
all the contracts entered upon by the
Hamburg American company. Simi.
lar measures will be taken in the mat.
ter OF the passenger traffic 1t is stat.
ed that the pooling arrangements
guarantee the Hamburg company
against pecuniary loss from a strike.
There is no sign as yet of the differ.
ences between the shipping men and
their employees being adjusted. The
employers are firm in their refusal to
grant the demands of the men, and the
latter are equally as firm In their at
tempt to compel the employers to
accede to their terms. The movement
threatens to spread to Bremen. The
support that the strikers are receiving
from Lon don complicates the situation.
Ship owners and other employers OF
harbor labor have decided to re-employ
any Of the men who express willing.
ness to return to work before Thurs
day at the old rate of pay, without
the increase granted lately as COM
promise. They will not re-cmploy any
of the men who refuse to accept their
terms
The strikers now number about
5000 The seamen shipping at Ham
burg are growing more inclined to join
the strikers unless they are granted
their old rate of wages under which
an ordinary seaman received 10
marks per month and others in
proportion. Work on the docks and
in the harbor is almost at a stand
still A large number OF men who ar
rived from Friesland and other points
to fill the places of strikers returned
Immediately upon learning of the state
of affairs. Mr.. Joseph H. Wilson, pres
ideut of the London union, has tele-
graphed that the members of that
union will not discharge any vessels
from Hamburg
BREMEN, Nov. 25.-The dock labor
ers here have demanded an increase in
their wages and threaten to strike if
their demand is not granted immedi-
ately. The warehouse company has
announced that it will reply in three
days =,
LONDON, Nov. 25. The officials of
the British Shipping federation say if
any attempt is made to prevent the
coaling at British ports of steamers
from Hamburg, measures will be taken
to replace any of the men who refuse
to work. ~
LONDON, Nov. 25.-The annual con-
ference of the sailors and fremen's
unions was held Tuesday. 1t resolved,
in view of the phenomenal rise in the
rates in freights that it would be to
the interest of shipowners to volun-
tarily increase wages, failing which,
the meeting urged the members of the
union to assist the executive commit
tee in preparing TO demand an in
crease.
Mr.. Joseph II. Wilson, NJ. P, and
secretary of the National Seamen's
union, reported after visit to the con-
tinent that the foreign members of the
federation were ready to
follow should the British sailors and
hremen decide to strike.
ANTWERP, Nov. 25.-The executive
of the Dock Laborers' union
here are having difficulty in keeping
the union men at work.
ROTTERDAM, Nov. 25.-It has been de-
cided by the Dock Laborers' union here
to do no work on vessels bound to or
from Hamburg.