The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-07

Gain in Struggles between Capitnl
and Lnbor-Ne,v York the Greatest
American strike CitS-She Has Six
Times as Many. Annually, as Her
Nearest rival. ChicaEo-FiEures
showing the Cost of strikes in
America and Proportion of Loss
Horne by Each side-Causes of
strikes aud How settIed-C Ompar-
isun with English Strikes-First
American strike.
Copyright 1899.
New York. Aug 1.-The recent strikes
IN New York. Cleveland and elsewhere OF
the street ear men, the newsboys, the
messengers and the garment cutters. calls
attention 10 some remarkable statistics
compiled on tins subject. lt mas long been
the general impression that Chicago was
the greatest OF all strike centers, with
the prtsburg and Allegheny regions a
close second. This, however, is not the
case. According to statistics, prepared
by Carroll D. Wright, commissioner Of
labor. and covering seven years New
York had 2G14 strikes, Brooklyn. G1l, max
ing "a total for Greater New York of $3.50
strMle-. or an average of about 40 strikes
every year To compare with this large
number Chicago was afflicted during the
same period of time with SIS strikes, or
only 10 year. Boston followed with 2o1
strikes. and then CAME Allegheny ana
Pittsburg. where the workmen in the steel
In. how mod, tbe,,selves famous the
a,. .,1. ,-,
NoIIH over ds ll"u9'ii"i "sii''i9' WIZ -''
adelpbia and other cities in the order
-. @. 1,,,ig ,,i,.i,oot \fiIvcoulea
,.,.t
Lynn ran i'FeI' "a" fI'H0'9eO' D"''-
more and New Haven.
Rut if New York ha0 the largest num-
.t.i,... l., ..,.,,, ,.,ars j. ga, OF
w. W
least boast mat they were not as Nloleht
nor as EXTENDED as tho7e OF CmedSo' + OF
instance I'D what is now greater Ne"
York the employers loss from strikes our
ing seven years was oh!y niue over
%UW'OD Whlie ChicaSo loss reached tle
enormous sum OF SIf4WVV' GIVING
graphic insight mo the comparative N'o-
lence OF the strikers ID the TWO IocdIllleS'
In the same peiiVn lle sulkeIs tleih-
selves lost IN New YORK ABOUT $loVV,VN
WINE IN 'hicaso inc loss wac doou' Nv
Wu'WV showing tlal tie sulheIs OF tHe
western CITY, 10 use a sang phrase GOT
strikers that IS Tor every dolar mat the
Ne" YORK strikers spent IN loss OF wages
ana IN assistance gwen ~ tne IaDor
umons TO cases OF suffering theY mace
the employers spehd ChIy 70 cents. On the
olher hand' the strikers OF Chlcaeo lor
every dollar which thty lost made the
employers lose ABOUT $lp' that IS they
beat them ali the contest OF dollars. II
may also ne sald IN passing that When
Allegheny ana PittsburE nave "a strike,
II Is usually struggle TO the death the
losses Dtlus severe on Dolh Sues showing
that l8huhe comes natural to the blood
OF the FennsyiVanldn. Athough these
Two citles mad only z7l strikes IN the seven
years named, the employees lost S3Woovo
ana the employers lost nearly S2,609uoo.
Another curious Iact when comes 10
Hght as result OF the present apparent
epidemic OF StilheS Is what may ne c3Hed
tle STRIKE cycle A Huahcld1 panic Is
supposed TO come once ~ every twenty
years statistics would indicate that
strike epidemic IS due about once in every
cleN'h years IN the mlddle SlNtlcS, Just
following the war there were large mum
per o. strikes All over the United states.
ABOUT eieNeh years ld'ef some OF me pit
terest railroad strikes OF the world took
place IN the United states rms period Is
sun known IN the histories as the strike
year OF a. Again about eleven years
later IN the late eiShtlcs. came the famous
% strikes beginning with the Chicago,
burlington ana quincy ana hnally tnVolV-
ing many other railroad lines-a strike al
most uncqualled III length and bitterness.
And now, II The eleven-year cycle holds
good II would seem that we are approach
Ing another epidemic and the fever of the
strike situation in New York and Cleve-
lahd, 10 say nothing OF rumorS OF dis
turbanees elsewhere, would indicate that
the cycle theory was not unfounded in
TACT