QUEER STRIKE.

Evening Star, Issue 11452, 21 January 1901, Page 3

QUEER STRIKE.

There was a curious Btrike recently in New York, the parallel of which has, perhaps, never yeb been, known. The famous jewellery firm of Tiffany and Co. do most of the wedding invitation and ooher "swell" engraving business of New York. The firm employ sixty engravers, the majority of wbrom receive from £IS to £2O a week, and the rest from £lO to £ls. They are said to be the higbesb-paid workmen in the world. The men have gone on strike, not because any attempt was made to renuce their wages or increase their hours of labor, but because the firm refused to pub their factory under the rules of the Eagravers' Union. When the firm made an attempt to employ outside men the strikers proceeded to picket the factory, and the remarkable spectacle was presented of strikers dressed in frock coats and silk hats and patent leather boots, wearing diamonds, and looking as if they might be trust magnates rather than downtrodden workmen out of a job, and trying to prevent other men from working.