The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-24
THE COST OF BIG STRIKES.
Amazing Facts and Ff@Wes ADoAE
 Labor Disputes Here and Abroad.

Awmx,ua Eactn ana FHguEes AboYt
 Labor Disputes Here and Abroad.
 The conclusion of the engineers dis pute. which has lasted seven . EcnnS, ess SnS, not aot to %e mention ssss.Ooo loss in wages: recalls the famous engineers strike or I4,0O0 men, who fought against an all round 5 per cent reduction in waSes: The result of the fight Is that they if this half, which amounts Co, fels los per week, is counted as. gatn ro the men, it may be tS rectk29aSS9 aSGs snas vSars .s will @ tse a ths% ss Gyse Sonnt sSsy hsvs % lost in 1S oOffaniHgs tbs lgss7 U affair 7o.ooO men laid down their tools to try to enforce an
 They failed. after a seven-months try S between fS,ooO. .O0O. and IF DOC, 900, Engineers paid out strike money at the rate of between f40,O0O and 4se'oOO
 Another record engineers strike was ing two and a half years. This strlkes however, only affected fthe engineers of Sunderland, and cost over E2OO. .oo0.
 The present dispute in the cotton trade Is the biggest that has ever oc- cured In Lancashire. No fewer than 23, 900 operatives are already ahectedi and the QlBQuNCs II tON@-RSGs lead to the sLoppage of 100000 work
 The strikers have huge funds, the war chests of the two nnions, ,,adIs a5nonnI- E1,. the first week of the strike, however $50 900 must be disbursed in strike pay SO that the unions VIII be serlousiy crippled if this industrial war con- In 1897 the masters, as tn the pres ent case, wanted to reduce wages oy per cent. The men resisted, and was abandoned by the masters.
 In 1878 the masters demanded q re- duction of 10 per cent and strike and lockout of 12,000 ensued. It lasted month, and is estimated to haxs cost the workpeople over E2,OOO,OpO In
 This was the Penrnyn affair. which lasted from October. 1900, to NovemOer, . matter of fact, the quarrel between the late Lord Penrnyn and his quarry men had begun as long ago as 1853, and there had been numerous partial strikes previous to the great one.
 During the three years f3e4 4.0OO was lost in wages alone, and wherees at the beginning of 1t we imported no slate Into this country at the end ships were bringing in over 1900 tons Of
 The dispute between variety artists and music hall agents recalls the strike of 1906 when over 1000 artistes, must- clans and stage hands struck owing to disputes about contracts. This strike was forfeited in wages by the strikers
 Although twenty years have passed since the great dock strike. when 30, 900 men went out for, one, penny ar, hour extra wages, London has scarcely re- covered from the effects of that strike even now. wbile the strike on the Gale 1S90-S-when the. police and military auth critics were in conflict for hours together, day after day. with thous- ands of infuriated men and women driven to desperation by starvation and the threatened loss of their homes Is a foretaste of what might happen in the case of general railway ser wants strike.
 The States have furnished us with even more remarkable examples of the disaster which follows coal and rail way strikes.
 The coal war of 1909, when 25o 900 men were idle and a coal famine en- sued. was attended by bloodshed and disorder Mines. bridges. and trains were wrecked. and set on Ire. and in one of the fights as many as eight strikers and soldiers were killed.