LATER PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 34, 3 September 1889, Page 2

LATER PARTICULARS.

BIOTING IMMINENT. London, September 1. The police are reported to sympathise with the dockineu, and it is believed they cannot be relied, on in case of a riot. Mr Burns expects to be arrested for the part he has played in the affair, and has arranged for a successor to replace him in the leadership of the Socialist party. A panic and riots are feared. It is expected that by Monday there will be a quarter of a million of men on strike. The dock owners show no signs of giving way The utmost they will agree to is to offer 5d per hour, and a promise to endeavour to pay for piecework at the rate of 6d per hour. The men insist on 6d for regular work. The number of men on strike outside the dock labourers has dimini shod, and is now estimated to be not more than 100,000. The funds are stated to be increasing. Sixty thousand Seamen's Unionists have offered monetary and active assistance. The wool sales will begin on the 17th, if the strikes do not prevent them being held at all. Colonial brokers and merchants are suffering heavily. It is reckoned that two million of pounds worth of colonial imports and exports are blocked by the sudden revolt of the men. Two thousand East end tailors have struck for a decrease in hours and an increase in wages, and it is expected that the number will increase to twenty thousand.