THE LONDON STRIKES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9461, 4 September 1889, Page 5

THE LONDON STRIKES.

PARLEYING BROKEN OFF.

PRECAUTIONS AGAINST INTIMIDA TION. THE LOSSES OF SHIPOWNERS. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STRIKERS. Press Association.—Electric Tclegrapk.—Copyright. London, September 2. The strike has cost the P. and O. Company £15,000 during the past fortnight. The Salvation Army, together with Mr. Buxton, M.P., and others, are providing daily food for thousands of strikers' families. Funds are urgently needed to avert absolute starvation. Further large contributions are anticipated from America and Australia. The stonemasons in America have promised to remit £100 weekly. The strikers' cause is being warmly advocated by a number of members of Parliament, including Messrs. Creroer, Graham, Stuart, and James Rowland. The strikers' meeting in Hyde Park Avas of an orderly character. Burns said the marks of sympathy they had received from the colonies were true federation. Parleying had ended, and the men now awaited the surrender of the dock owners. The meeting was smaller than the last one. The dock owners say they will only negotiate with the employes. The pickets are being doubled. The argument between the wharfingers and shipowners has collapsed, and the strikers are now quiescent.

Eight hundred " blacklegs" are housed and employed in the docks.

The directors of the companies allege that Burns has just invited seven thousand strikers to invade the decks and remove these men, and have appealed to Mr. Mathews, the Home Secretary, for help. Police have been despatched to their assistance.

At a large meeting of wharfingers, resolutions were carried advising the men to accept terms ofierecl by the Dock Companies.

The Dock Companies will to-morrow forward a reply to the application of the Shipping Companies for permission to engage their own labourers in discharging vessels.

Great preparations have been made to suppress any intimidation on the part of those on strike. Received September -4, 1.30 a.m. London, September 3. The Trades Union Congress of Dundee has advised the various trade unions to render financial support to the men on strike in London. The directors of dock companies have refused to see Burns, who is acting for the strikers, owing to his insulting behaviour. They assert that they can procure abundance of labour if the menaces of the strikers are suppressed. The shipowners are strongly inclined to revolt at the action of the dock compauies.

The strikers are enfeebled by hunger. Received September 4, 1.30 a.m. Sydney, September 3. The Local Seamen's Union to-day voted the first instalment of £500 in aid of the London dock strikers. Melbourne, September 3. •>[ At a mass meeting of sympathisers with the London strikers, £1700 was collected. 'AID FROM AUCKLAND. Last evening a special meeting of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Sen-ants was held in the Britomart Hotel, for the purpose of taking into consideration the London Dock strike question. There was a good attendance, and Mr. T. Manning presided. After some preliminary discussion and explanation, it was resolved to vote £20 as a subscription to a fund for the assistance of the strikers, and an opinion ■was expressed that the various trade societies of New Zealand should co-operate to take measures to form a general fund for this purpose. As notified elsewhere, the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants invite representatives from the various trade societies to form a committee for the promotion of such a fund as proposed, feeling sure that the object of assistance to their fellow-workmen at home would meet with wide support.