ALL GREAT BRITAIN "STIRRING."

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 40, 24 January 1890, Page 29

ALL GREAT BRITAIN "STIRRING."

(Irish World, December 7.) All over Great Britain the working-men are up and stirring in the direction of more pay and shorter hours of labour. So we learn from our cable dispatches printed elsewhere. In city and country, at the bench and in the nainb, the men who toil all over England and Scotland and Ireland feel that they are not getting justice, and they proclaim their determination to struggle for justice by ail legitimate means within their power. Tbe gratifying feature in the business is that public sympathy appears to be strongly on the side of the working-men, and that as a consequence several of the strikes wbich are taking place almost daily are quickly coming to an end by concession of the terms demanded by tbe strikers. It is evident that to the great victory of the London dock-labourers are largely due the numerous victories which have followed. The example of the dockmea has inspired their toiling brethren all over the country with courage and hope. In many instances the employers have yielded without a contest, conceding the increase of wages* demanded almost as soon as the demand was made. A notable case is that of the DuMin bakers, who have got; an increase of 4s (one dollar) a week almost without a fight. In this case a settlement was come to by arbitration, a fact which shows that the excellent advice of Archbishop Wal-h is being followed in Ireland. The Archbishop has been indefatigable in his exenions to get workmen ani employers to recognise arbitration as the best possible way out of all disputes. In England the influence of the great popular Caidinal is being everywhere felt aB a beneficent and picificatory agency. Tha despatches teli us that in one place the Cardinal " presides over a meeting of shop assist ints wbo w-inc sh >rter t ours," ao'l in another, where " the tailors .ire stinin*," wo fi.iri " Oaidinal Manning's name again figu intf at tha meeting of th<' commi te^ " This is hitfcly gra'ifying. Wliere the Cardinal is we may be enre thcie will b wiie coun-e, and the workers In ow ih t in him they have not ouly a prudent counsellor but a warm trieui] and sympathiser. We hope that the whole series of struggles will soon terminate in arrangements that will be juet to both parties.