THE GREAT STRIKES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 349, 10 September 1889, Page 2

THE GREAT STRIKES.

PROBABLE COMPROMISE. OPINION OF THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. BURNS A CANDIDATE FOB A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT. London, September 7. The owners of seventeen wharves and warehouses have conceded the demands of the strikers, but the owners of forty other wharves hold out against them. The directors of the Surrey, Commercial, and Millwall docks are parleying with the officers of the Union. Mr Burns advocates the defeat of the employers in sections, thereby mitigating the distress by aooepting work from employers who concede the demands of the men.

Cardinal Manning, in an address to the strikers, and in reference to the position taken up by the men, said that it displayed an order and a heroism unequalled since he great cotton famine. The strikes in oonneotion with the stores and minor trades have in tbe majority of cases been victorious. The Loudon dock strike is tbe subject of discussion in Germany. The Emperor William has expressed tbe opinion that it ia necessary to the best interests of tho State that workmen should be protected against the tyranny of capitalists, and he hopes to see during the ensuing session of tho Reichstag the introduction of a measure for tbe amelioration of the condition of labor. Scores of minor s rikes have taken place, in the majority cf which the men have been viotorious. The Trades Congress, by a large majority, have negatived tbe proposal of a compulsory eight hours system. Burns, the Socialist, announces that hs will oontest tho Dundee constituency at next election, LATER. As the result of parleying between Mr Burns and the dock companies, conducted through Lord Mayor Whitehead and other loading men, it is believed that a settlement will be arrived at, by which the demands of the strikers will be agreed to, but the fulfilment of the agreement to be delayed until the first day of next January.