A COSTLY STRIKE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13752, 18 June 1913, Page 3

A COSTLY STRIKE.

If, as has been estimated, the Belgian strike cost the country about £3,000,000 a week, it ranks as one of tho dearest of industrial disputes1. Even America can hardly beat that record. When the great Pullman car strike occurred in 1894 60,000 men refused to work; the dispute lasted for over a fortnight, and railway property to the value of nearly £1,000,000 was destroyed. Twice this amount of damage was done on the . American _ railways in 1877 during the Baltimore and Ohio Railway dispute; while the first nineteen weeks of the Great American coal war, in 1902, when a quarter of a million men struck work, cost the workmen £4,800,000 in wages, the mineowner© £8,640,000, and the railways, merchants, and others £9,000,----900.