GIGANTIC LOCKOUT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 194, 18 August 1890, Page 3

GIGANTIC LOCKOUT.

TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND MEN ]]' . , INVOLVED. MANUFACTURERS, RETALIATE ON BOYOOTTERS. New York, July 10. The Clothing Manufacturers' Association of New York has given notice to its one thousand, cutters of a lockout. The manufacturers state this step is taken in retaliation for the boycott placed on one of their number, Alfred Benjamin and Co. Over 20,000 persons will be thrown out of work, ~, A large meeting of the striking cloakmakers and their sympathiser* was held at Cooper Union. One of the speakers said the notice of the lockout of clothing cubbera was the lasb efforb of organised capital to break up the cutters'organisation. Ib will force out 1,300 men immediately and even-* tually drive 25,000 persons,into idleness. President Gompers, of bhe. Americon Federation of Labour, said the real object of the manufacturers was to place the cutters in a position in which they may be induced to take the places of the cloak cutters. The responsibility of those about tOjthrow ' * ■'

! twenty thousand men into the streeb was great. Some of bhe most awful revolutions t in the world had very humble beginnings, '• and whatever might happen would lie on the heads of this foul combination. Twentyfive thousand men were nob going to beg - for bread. f Resolutions were adopted protesting y against bhe action of bhe manufacturers and <f calling for the abolibion of the Grand Jury, r Representatives of the Manufacturers' . Association said to-night that it is simply 1 a question as bo who is running bheir busit news. They recognise no union. The 3 trouble started when a boycott was placed 3 on the firm of Benjamin & Co., because , they would nob make their factory strictly i union. Several firms were threatened with , similar treatment, and rather than have bhe ■ men make a systematic raid by selecting one manufacturer ab a time, the Association ; concluded to take the bull by bhe horns. > _■■ '