A GIGANTIC BOYCOTT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6593, 19 September 1899, Page 2

A GIGANTIC BOYCOTT.

At Cleveland, Ohio, where agreSt*tram.| way strike was- recently in ajidi where at first the featom* were «oidteni f i dynamite and bloodshed,.^ remarkable<<am-! dition of affaire resulted. Thi*isva boycott,unexampled (says the New York correspon-dent-of the "Daily Tetegraph") in the-an-i nals of labour troubles. The oars of the' Consolidated Street Railway Company arei running almost empty, and manufacturers: and shopkeepers, big and little, are forced' to compel their employees to observe the; boycott. One notable example is sufficient' to give an idea of the power of iie. -strikers' 1 ' organisation. It occurred .in Newburg, a' part of Cleveland, ,in which some of tbei largest manufacturing plants are situated.; One day a well-known man went into a; saloon on Brdadway and called for a.gtess of beer. The proprietor refused to serve' him, saying that he would not sell to any! person who rode on a non-union car. The' man then went to another saloon on Bread-' way, andmet with the samevreception. fi© ; became angry, and said he would order -a case of beer from down town, something, which he had never done before. He-en-tered a, drug store to telephone for the beer,! but the druggist would not let him^use-the instrument. Next he went into a barber's k shop to get a shave, and Figaro, who was' * in the back room, called to him to-sit-down. > The customer hung his coat and hatoQTthe rack and gob into the barber's chair, bati when the artist saw who he was, >he refused' to shave him. A woman living- in Newbnrgi got off a Broadway car and entered the: Central Market. She went to a stall to pur- : chase some butter; but the proprietor had had.the tip that the woman had ridden on a non-union car, and refused to sell her the article. In. consequence of this new turn of affairs, the troops are to leave the city, as the -military authorities say that the soldiers shall not do' police duty. . .•