COSTLY AMERICAN STRIKES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8273, 20 September 1888, Page 3

COSTLY AMERICAN STRIKES.

A bfport from the British Minister at Washington, as to strikes in the United States, was recently lnirl before Parliament. It states that since 1887 there have been 1000 strikeß in the United Slates, and of the 400,000 men engaged in them, from 25,000 to 50,000 are etill out. The most serious was that of the New Jersey coalhandlerp, which involvod a loss in wnjres to those engaged of more than £500,000. The cost to tho workers of tho Ponnsylvanian coke-workers' etrike in tho spriu-.', in which 13,000 men were entra^orl for ten weeke, was about £200,000 in wnjres. More than twothirdsof the strikes between January and Jul}*, 1887, were fruitless, and only brought loes and Boff' rinp: to those engaged in them. As a whole, about thirty-eight per cent , or more than a third, of the strikers io 1887 succeeded in getting thf-ir demands, against twenty prr cent, in 1886. It is calculated that nearly 10,000,000 da}fl' work were lost, while the loss in wages is estimated at £2,700,000.