STRIKES IN AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12532, 20 June 1901, Page 2

STRIKES IN AMERICA.

NO IA&BITiRA'fKW, moutaLE w tbare;. • [Per Press Association.} (Per R..M.5.. Mariposa at Auckland,}. SAN KftANOISCO, May 30. Two days after President M'Kinley had visited the Unicm Works here .on May 20, and had 'there delivered; an address' t 9, tfa& workmen, which wag most enshusiast!}{»lly received, the meiohamics of the works, together with, thousands of other machinist?! went qn strike. >t The strike was\cHsp.red by the naticoal' organisation, and affected about), 50,000 workmen, W- places along * the • eastern sea 'board wi other Jocalities, be- j 6id»s *he, Pacific .Coast, The Interna-tWal; Association, of Machinists will convene at- ! Toronto, Canada, on June 3, and *he strike ' will be 'fully discussed. Many employers' in the Eatsfc fowva granted t&e demands O'f the strikers, which- are for. nine hours a day, with a new scale of wages, which will; permit, them to so shorten the 'hours with- j out decreasing'their earnings. ' ''..;, | The dewand which has met with the most \ serious ab least in tttis locality,' relates to settlement by arbitration., and makes it necessary lor the.Employers' Association to treat officially with, tfho Union. This the employers are . refusing to do. They express a desire to treat with, their own men;?but.so far refuse with' determination to recognise .the Union, or meet committees with tthe idea o'f settling' the difference in that way. The coudltioii is most

inconvenient, for shipowners. Here, «ad & all Pacific Coast points, many steamers Were undergoing qp v |p nees of fchem, and tne. pled already, The G-overnm?.H.tj, vmM have been in, grave difficulty but for the fact that th-eißteQ employed m Ite y3i# 'kw an day already, w& thus %vk in, the present trouble. Yess&ls m the, Tcm&L of loeal firms for repairs havefceen, or lill be, sent '*o Mare Island or Puget fionmdj where tfce GowaroWb willbe &pls i® all transports in condltioii for the pjeien.-f. If tihepe aocommodations ■sjm n.ofc. ships of service can ne ?«pa-ire4 &% kong.